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APHORISMS 

FROM 

SHAKESPEARE ; 

ARRANGED 

ACCORDING TO THE PLAYS, &c. 

WITH 

A PREFACE AND NOTES; 

NUMERAL REFERENCES TO EACH SUBJECT; 
AND 

A COPIOUS INDEX. 



" TAKE HIM FOR. ALL IN ALL, 
" WE NE'ER SHALL LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN." 



PRINTED FOR 
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, 

- , PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON, 

BY GEDGE AND BARKER) BURY. 

1812. 



To whom should this Collection 

OF SHAKESPERIAN TREASURES 

be dedicated y 

If not to one of the best acquainted 

With the MINE whence they were drawn r 

To HIM who has cultivated the DRAMA 

With merited <$• most brilliant Success ; 

Wlio has studied Mankind 

Like that great Interpreter of our Nature ; 

It's Faults 8% Frailties; it's Glories fy Perfection ; 

Who has been an elegant Observer $ enthusiastic Admire* 

Of female Loveliness; 

Who has united the most vivid Coruscations 

Of Wit fy Humour 

With the permanent Splendor 

Of Eloquence §- Wisdom; 

Who kas thought with a Power which few ever possest -, 

And conveyed his Thoughts with a Felicity 

to which still fewer have attained; 

In a long fy luminous Career of more than Thirty Yean 

THE FRIEND of PEACE % REFORM; 

The disinterested <$• persevering 

REPRESENTATIVE of THE PEOPLE; 

Uniting the highest Energies of serious Exertion 

With the most easy § animated Vivacity ; 

The Friend of suffering Humanity , 

Whether on the Throne or in the Hut, 

Wheresoever existing : 

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OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION; 

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THE HEAD OF SHAKESPEARE 

Prefixt to these Aphorisms , is copied from the original 
Print (by Droeshout) to the Folio Editions of his Works 
printed in 1623 and 1632, to which was annexed the 
Inscription of Ben Jonson, inserted in page xxxi of the 
Introduction. 



An APHORISM is a clear , concise^ detacht, and pithy Sen- 
tence ; impressively conveying to Observation and Memory 
some important Truth. 

Delivery of Opinions or Precepts by way of APHORISMS, 
shews whether an Author have entered deeply into his Subject 
or not : for they are ridiculous unless drawn from the central 
parts of Science,, Bacon. 

Hominem Pagina nostra sapit. Mart. 



INTRODUCTION. 



M. 



.R, ROWE, in his Biographical Introduc- 
tion, which he has modestly calTd " Some Ac- 
count of the Lift, Syc. of Mr. William Shakespeare/ 9 
has related an Anecdote, which, perhaps, can no 
where be better plac'd than at the head of this 
Collection of Aphorisms. He informs us, that, 
in a Conversation between Sir John Suckling, Sir 
William Davenant, Endymion Porter, Mr. Hales 
of Eton, and Ben Jonson*, Sir John Suckling* 
who was a professt Admirer of Shakespeare, had 
undertaken his Defence against Ben Jonson 



* I was not aware of this being the correct orthography 
until it was pointed out to me by the Author of the Life of 
Chaucer, (Mr. Godwin) but I since find it was the spelling 
adopted in Mr. CapelPs Life of Shakespeare, and also by 
Mr ' ^r Scott, in his elegant Edition of Dryden's Works: 
JU* 'd, 

b 



U INTRODUCTION. 

with some warmth ; and that Mr. Hales, who 
hacTsat still for some time, told them, that " if 
u Shakespeare had not read the Amients, he had 
" not stolen from them; and if he (Jonson) 
" would produce any one topic finely treated 
" by any one of them, he would undertake to 
u shew something upon the same subject at least 
" as well written by Shakespeare" 

Now although this might apply to Topics, or 
Common places, of descriptive Poetry, to beau- 
tiful and splendid Amplification, yet these are 
both inferior in point of dignity, and are not fre- 
quent in the Ancknt Writers, especially the 
Dramatic, of whom Jonson was most probably 
speaking. The sententious gravity of that learned 
and g eat Author (for great he is, and too little 
read a: resent) would naturally lead him to the 
praise Oi the aphoristic wisdom of Antiquity. He 
probably mention' d Seneca, and notic'd Plautus 
with respect. And for its moral and prudential . 
Aphorisms what has come down to us of Roman 
Tragedy. We may be confident that he thought 
and spake of Euripides": the favorite Poet and 
Friend of Socrates ; a«d perhaps for his Apho- 
risms, even more than for the sweetness, sim- 



-INTRODUCTION. Hi 

plicity, and pathos of his Dramas, the fa- 
vorite of Milton. But had it before been 
doubtful, the present Collection would ascertain 
the truth : that no Writer of Greek or Roman 
Antiquity can justly bear the palm of this Excel- 
lence from Shakespeare ; the rival of the best 
Days of Antiquity in so many other, and so great 
Excellences. 

And how great an Excellence it is, the ever 
memorable Sir Francis Bacon was fully sensible. 
He has contributed not only his Eulogium, but 
his own Share to this concise and weighty mode 
of conveying practical Wisdom. And indeed, 
whether we resort to the Psalms, Proverbs*, the 
Book of Wisdom, and Ecclesiasticusf, the Maxims 
of Confucius, Zoroaster, Pilpay, and the-^gyp- 
tian Hermes ; or to Homer, especially fo the 
Odyssey; Euripides, and Pindar; iEschyliis : 
and less frequently, less abstractedly, and di- 

* The common Proverbs of a Country, however different 
from these, are still the popular and traditional Wisdom of 
Nations. See Ray's Proverbs; and a Collection publisht at 
Qxford, 1803, 

f Extracts have been lately publisht from these, under the. 
title of -" Moral Maxim " by a Lady, 

b 2 



IV INTRODUCTION. 

rectly, Sophocles ; or to the remains of Menan- 
der and Philemon, and the other elegant and 
nervous Writers of the Middle Age, or Senti- 
mental Comedy, of the Attic Theatre *, we are 
surrounded by striking instances of the anti- 
quity and dignity of the aphoristic form of In- 
struction. Of this kind were the Maxims and 
Golden Precepts of Pythagoras. And what illus- 
trious Writers have excell'd since in the use of 
it ! Boerhave, after the example of Hippocrates 
and Celsus, has reduc'd the precepts of medical 
prudence to this form. Gravesande successfully 
applied the same form to impress on the memory 
the series of Principles and Discoveries of the 
Newtonian Philosophy. And Vattel the Law of 
Nations. As to its principles, great part of the 
Roman Law is expresst in Aphorisms. And so of 
our own. And to return to those who have made 
this the vehicle not of particular Science, but 
of general Instruction: the Aphorisms in Virgil 
which " come home to men's business and 
bosoms/' are not few. His illustrious Imitator, 



* The Remark applies to Terence; that most elegant 
Imitator and Translator of the Grecian Comedy. 



INTRODUCTION. V 

Tasso, loses not this feature of resemblance. In 
Ovid they are not thinly scattered. In Horace 
they supply a rich fund of prudential and moral 
information. In Juvenal they are weighty and 
sublime. And it is not easv to forget the senten- 
tious dignity of Lucan. Isocrates, is often wholly 
aphoristic. Demosthenes, Herodotus, Xenophon, 
Thucydides, Polybius, and Plutarch : Epicte- 
tus, Arrian, Antoninus; Cicero, Sallust, Livy, 
and Tacitus, all abound in Aphorisms. Theo* 
phrastus, in his Characters, is very aphoristic. 
One Class of Poetical Writers on Morality in 
Greece has been nam'd for this very circum- 
stance*. In the pensive and exquisitely ele- 
gant Petrarch not a little of this turn may be ob- 
serv'd ; and more in what we have of Michael 
Angelo, and the illustrious Dante. Much in 
Sannazaro, Guarini, and Guidi. Machiavelli, 
whose real scope has been ill understood till 
lately, is in his Prince, and in his Comments 
on Livy professedly aphoristic; and occasionally 
so in his noble History of Florence. This turn is 



* Gnomologi. Of this land, among the Romans, are Cato 
and Publiire Syrus. 

b3 



VI INTRODUCTION. 

amply observable in the acute and reflective Mind 
of Cervantes. Besides the lively and interesting 
Bruyere, the severe and sarcastic Rochefoucault, 
and the profound Pascal, who are avowedly 
aphoristic Writers, from Fenelon many Aphorisms 
of moral and civil Prudence and religious Duty 
inight be extracted : Much from the mild, per- 
spicuous, and amiable Florian. And De Lille 
should not be omitted in this enumeration. In 
Moliere much indeed may be found, either direct 
or more latent, and embodied with the Cha- 
racter and Dramatic Occasion. There are many 
in Milton; both in his Poetry and his rich 
and nervous Prose. They form nearly the Body 
of Montesquieu's immortal Work, The Spirit 
of the Laws : and almost equally so of that 
never to be forgotten Tract of Beccaria on Crimes 
and Punishments. in the writings of Richardson 
they are frequent : and in those of Franklin, of 
Rousseau, and of Lavater, they are most abun- 
dant. Of the latter, as of Perm, the founder of 
Per J nsylvania > a distinct Collection drawn up 
hy himself has been publisht. D'Anois, under 
the name of Danseus, publisht a Collection of 
jiphorismin Latin. And lately the aphorisms have 



INTRODUCTION,. . "ViJ 

been collected from his Works, (by Miss Porter) 
and separately publisht, of that ornament of his 
Country, in Arts and Arms, in Intellect and in 
Heart, Sir Philip Sydney *. And I cannot pass in 
silence the Contemplations f of Arthur Ld.Capel; 
where there is much of this nature. See too the 
Table Talk of the great Selden : And the Icoel 
Basilike. Beaumont and Fletcher have many 
strong and important Aphorisms. In Ben Jonson 
they are stampt with the energetic dignity 
of his Mind. In several of the Authors which 
compose this Constellation of pre-eminently 
splendid and benign Genius, they illustrate, 
as in Shakespeare, almost every principal point 
of personal and political Prudence; of moral 
Wisdom ; of pious contemplation on the divine 
Wisdom and Goodness ; of Benevolence, and Vir- 
tue. And I am persuaded that Ben Jonson, who 
proved himself the discerning, liberal, and zealous 
Admirer of Shakespeare, when his Glory was in the 

* " Aphorisms on Education" and an elegant Volume of 
* s Aphorisms for Ycuth" have recently been publisht ; the 
latter by Lackington and Allen, 1801. Dodsley's " Economy 
of Human Life" and The Rule of Life, in sentences ^ are both 
valuable examples. 

f Publisht 1683, 



"Via INTRODUCTION. 

dawn*, meant only to observe the comparative 
want in that deeply learned Age, of classic Learn- 
ing in Shakespeare ; and the effect which this might 
have on the construction of his Drama. An ei> 
feet on which Miss Baillie has excellently ob- 
served in her most judicious Critical Introduc- 
tion to her Series of Plays (Plays which pecu- 
liarly merit to be mentioned when we speak of 
Shakespeare ; and of which the idea is philosophic 
as the execution is admirable) that we can more 
readily estimate what has been lost by his want 
of this Learning, than we can what has been 



** It will be seen here, and in other passages, that 1 disbe- 
lieve the supposition of the jealousy of Jonson against Shake- 
speare. There are too many literary anecdotes of such a kind ; 
I trust rarely well founded. Excellence is not envious. 
T<5 Ctyoc&OV OV (pSovSl* And Rowe, who was so 
much nearer to the times, appears to have given little credit 
to the rumour. He proves the friendly attention of Sharker* 
speafe to Jonson. And Pope concurs in rejecting the impu% - 
tation, and quotes a noble testimony of Jonson to the Man 
'ind the Poet in his " Discoveries." But the subject is too 
long for a Note. I am glad to find that lyir. Octave Gilchrist 
has laid' an interesting examination of it before the Public. I 
fcave read it with pleasures and think it very satisfactory. 



INTRODUCTION- IX 

1 

gained by writing without a Model. I have said 
the want of this Learning : for in various Know- 
ledge he was very amply stor'd; and in the 
amazing scope and diversity of his subject*; 
hardly ever seems to want r any kind of know- 
ledge suitable to the occasion. But in a Life, the 
early part of which appears to have been hurried 
and full of trouble, (and the whole of it was short, 
compared to his numerous and amazing Works,-) 
Shakespeare had little leisure for the acquire- 
ment of what is commonly regarded as Learning 
in an exclusive sense : and he has evidently drawn 
chiefly from his own Mind and Observation. 

And now to consider generally once more the 
Authors who have been most frequent in Apho- 
risms: when we reflect on the taste, the skill, 
the energy, and feeling, of these admirable Wri- 
ters, if any be dispos'd to regard jiphorisms as 
trite, and cold, and heavy, they may see reasoa 
to doubt their judgement on them ; and, on far- 
ther consideration, to correct. They may, by 
unskilful Writers, be so introduced as to be liable 
to all these objections : but the fault is in the 
individual ; and is far from their nature. Their 
merit, and their characteristic efficacy, result 



X INTRODUCTION", 

from their form, their substance, and their ob- 
ject. By their form they are most pointedly im- 
presst, most early apprehended, most gene- 
rally diffus'd, and most permanently retain'd. 
From the cradle to the crutch they are capable 
of becoming the guides and the monitors of our 
lives : Their substance comprehends every best 
and most important Principle : Their object is, 
not only to fix the judgement, invigorate and en- 
large the intellect ; but to awaken and support 
the noblest and most generous sympathies of our 
Nature, and the best affections of our Heart. 
When Homer reminds us — 

" The Stranger and the Poor are all of Jove *." 
And elsewhere — 

" Short his career who wars against the Godsf." 
When Virgil says— 

<c Sufferers I learn to aid from sorrows known \ .'* 



* Ex. yoc^ Aiog sicrw oi7rav]zg 

BBlVOt^S 7TTU)%01 n jS ODYSS. 

f 'Orri (jlccK 9 ov ^yjyuiog eg 'uGuvutohti 

fA0C%0LT0 

I Haud ignara Mali miseris succurrere disco, AEN* 



INTRODUCTION". XI 

And when Shakespeare — 

" E'en the poor Beetle that we tread upon* 
" In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great 
" As when a Giant falls." 
And in another passage— 
" Take physic, Pomp, 
" Expose thyself to feel what Wretches feel." 
Could volumes of Essays convey more to the 
reason ; or so much to the feelings ? And such is 
the energy, as well as truth of his Aphorisms-} 
that if to any Poet, to Shakespeare, it is cer- 
tainly not less applicable than to Homer, 
" That what is good or il4, what serves or harms, 
" More plainly, and much better, he imparts, 
" Than high philosophizing Moralists 
" In many a ponderous tome of dusty Prose *." 
And indeed such in general is the advantage 
of aphoristic Poetry, that it might assuredly 
store the Mind with Precepts that would make 
invincible the Heart that should treasure them 
as they deserve, and should early and habitually 
apply them. Well might such a Master of Elo- 
quence, of Wisdom, and of Morals as Quintilian 



* Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, 
PKnius et melus Chrysippo et Crantcre elicit. HOR, 



Xll INTRODUCTION*. 

recommend, so strongly as he does, the learning 
by heart of moral Aphorisins* in verse, in the 
Education of Children. Well might the early 
Wisdom of Greece be concentrated into this form. 
And of a similar nature, however rude and im- 
perfect, is the traditional Wisdom of nearly all 
Nations. And in the most highly cultivated state 
of Society, the greatest, as has been instanc'd* 
the best and most refin'd Writers, the most 
comprehensive in their knowledge and powers of 
Mind, the best Benefactors of Mankind by the 
diffusion of Wisdom and Virtue have given copi- 
ous and most forcible examples of the aphoristic 
language. 

If it were ask'd from what sources Shake- 
speare drew these abundant streams of Wisdom, 
carrying with their current the fairest and most 
unfading Flowers of Poetry, I should be tempted 
to say, he had what would be now consider'd 
a very reasonable portion of Latin : he was 
not wholly ignorant of Greek ; he had a know- 
ledge of the French, so as to read it with ease; 



* Termed ypBlPCl hr° m their utility. 



INTRODUCTION. XllI 

and I believe not less of the Italian. He was 
habitually conversant in the Chronicles of his 
Country. He liv'd with wise and highly culti- 
vated men; with Jonson, Essex, and South- 
ampton, in familiar Friendship *. He had deeply 
imbibed the Scriptures. And his own most acute, 
profound, active, and original Genius (for there 
never was a truly great Poet, nor an aphoristic 
Writer of Excellence without these accompanying 
qualities) must take the lead in the Solution. 

Something may be proper to be said of the, 
fullness with which these Aphorisms are extract- 
ed. It seem'd fit that Aphorisms of every kind, 
provided that they contained the essential requi- 
site of Truth, should be included in this Collec- 
tion. Whoever collects Beauties of any kind 
from Shakespeare, will lose with reluctance any 

* Shakespeare was born 23d April, ]564; and died 23d 
April, 1616; being one of the few eminent Persona, the 
Day of whose Birth and Death has coincided *. He was, with 
very little difference, a Contemporary with Sir Francis 
Bacon ; in acuteness, range and profundity of Observation, 
in fulness of style, in exuberance of idea, these extraordinary 
Men have a great similitude to each other. 

* Of these Petrarch is another. 



XIV INTRODUCTION. 

particle of those beauties. And many which are 
very obvious, and may be called truisms, may 
yet by their subject or their mode of expression 
be very interesting and important*. Indeed, those 
who love Shakespeare as he merits would, per- 
haps, with reason have been displeased if more 
than some few of them had been omitted. Of 
what has been omitted, those who are conver- 
sant in the Works of our unrivalled Poet will see 
the reasons for the omission. 

One reason is this: In a Dramatic Writer so 
observant of character as Shakespeare, remarks 
in the aphoristic form will occasionally be made 
which are only dram at ically just : or sometimes 
which are merely ironical. Now in a Collection 
of Aphorisms, nothing ought to be inserted which 
is not substantially true : an Aphorism being a 
Definition of an interesting Truth or Principle 
reduced to a concise, simple, and impressive Pro- 



* To this effect it has very justly been remarkt, that an 
Aphorism is not only valuable when it conveys some rare and 
abstruse truth, but often and more generally when it conveys 
an obvious and useful principle in a clear and concise form. 
And* indeed, among the most greatly, generally, and per- 
petually" important. Vide A ph. for Youth, 289< 



INTRODUCTION. XV 

position. Bat as persons habitually vicious have 
rarely any claim to the character of close, strong, 
consis tent reasoners, and persons misled by passion 
lose that character while they are so, not many 
remarks of an aphoristic nature are thus lost by 
having been adapted to such characters. In ge- 
neral, the wise, the innocent, and the good, who 
are consequently the calm and reflecting, express 
themselves in Shakespeare, as in Nature, far more 
frequently in this manner than characters of a 
contrary description. As to ironical Aphorisms*. 
as the irony would commonly disappear in their 
detacht form, they would be liable to misinter- 
pretation : therefore very few have been inserted. 

But another circumstance might occur not un- 
frequently in truly Dramatic Writings : that an 
aphoristic principle is so- incorporated with the in- 
dividuality of the character and occasion, as to 
lose part of its aphoristic quality; its abstracted- 
ness and general application. 

In such instances those words have sometimes 
been omitted, in which the circumstantiation 
consisted; and, where necessary, words have been 
added or changed : and sometimes, though rarely, 
little more than the aphoristic basis, general 
c2 



XVI INTRODUCTION. 

idea, inference or deduction is retain'd ; as little 
moie, in those instances, could be retain'd. 
Sometimes an Aphorism is extracted from the 
general turn and dramatic import of a sentiment, 
or even incident : though in words and direct form 
it will not be found. 

Aphorwns, indeed, are to Dramatic Reflec- 
tions what Algebraic Problems and their solu- 
tions are to Arithmetical. They give the condi- 
tions of the question, and their result, in that 
form which is best adapted for the investigation, 
discovery* and clear deduction of general Prin- 
ciples ; from which particular applications may 
be very copiously and variously drawn. 

Sometimes a passage, where the terms are ca- 
pable of a striking aphoristic meaning, is applied 
by accommodation in that sense. But this is 
very rarely indeed *. 

Where there is any change, except merely of 
omission of unnecessary words, it is markt by a 
Character prefix t. 

Sometimes the Aphorism is imbedded, as it 



* Lipsius has done the same in his curious, interesting, and 
useful little Work, entitled, " Politica." 



INTRODUCTION. XVli 

were, in a splendid and various mine of the 
richest Poetry. In such instances, the taste and 
feelings of her who collected them would not 
suffer her to separate the treasure from its casket: 
and they are both presented together. There are 
some turns of expression not strictly grammatical. 
These, where they have occurred, which is not 
often, have been changed. And, occasionally, 
a striking fault of diction has been remedied by 
the substitution of one word for another of the 
same general import. But this too is rare: for 
rare was the occasion. 

In so fine a versifier as Shakespeare, Cadence • 
was to be consulted. And it has been so in the 
distribution of the lines : and, in some instances, 
by transposition; where the omission or inser- 
tion of words made such a change. requisite in 
the arrangement of those retained. 

Various Modes might have been taken for 
classing and arranging these Aphorisms, But 
here their Order is determir/d by their place in 
the Plays to which they belong. And in the Play* 
themselves, no particular arrangement is con- 
sulted. The Subjects and general Heads to which 
they relate appear*d*best reducible to an Lidcz. 
c 3 



XV111 INTRODUCTION. 

There will thus be freedom, variety, and contrast 
in the Collection; and Method, where method in 
a compilation of this kind seems to have its best 
place. The Edition of my Uncle, the late Edward 
Capell, has been employed on this occasion : but 
the reference being general to the Play, the passage 
will be found with equal ease in any other Edition. 

I would remark, that the Lady who form'd, 
and in a great degree executed the plan of select- 
ing these aphorisms j observed in making them, that 
they are generally less numerous, as she noticed 
was to be expected, in the very deep Tragedies ; 
where the tumult of passion, and of incident, 
leaves less room for reflection : And more fre- 
quent in his Historical Plays; and in Comedies of 
a mixt character, with much of the serious inter- 
woven. The Remark does honor to the Ob- 
server: and justice to the great Poet, whose at- 
tention to human Nature gave occasion to it. 
With respect to the deep Tragedies, Hamlet is 
an exception : from the peculiarly philosophic 
turn of that Play. Macbeth is another of the few 
exceptions. 

Thus, then, \ offer these Aphorisms to the 
Public* No Beauties of Shakespeare so well admit 



INTRODUCTION. XIX 

of being detacht from the general assemblage 
of his Excellences, and contexture of his admi^ 
rable Works, as these. They will place him, 
perhaps, in a clearer and stronger light than he 
has } T et been seen, as to some very high and cha- 
racteristic merits : as a most acute and profound 
Thinker, a most comprehensive Reasoner ; a 
consummate Teacher of private Prudence and 
political Wisdom: as uniting with the most 
exalted Genius and poetic Enthusiasm an Heart 
full of Love and Veneration to the Supreme 
Being ; of the relative and social Sympathies ; of 
Justice, Magnanimity, and Benevolence, in the 
most extended view. They will not be like the 
Pedant's shewing a Brick to give an idea of a 
great and admirable Edifice. They will, it is 
true, not shew the arrangement of the Design, 
and the various relations, symmetry, and beauty 
of the structure; but much of its characteristic 
greatness and comprehensive utility they will 
manifest. 

To the Aphorisms, as thus originally collected, 
I have added many : several of which I ought to 
say that she herself has markt for insertion ; and 
some I have introduced which a Lady might for 



XX INTRODUCTION. 

various reasons have declined inserting ; none, 
however, I trust, which are censurable in point of 
Delicacy or Morality. Indeed, I must regard 
Shakespeare as one of the most comprehensively 
and purely moral of all Writers. His expressions 
are not always guarded ; but notwithstanding the 
intensity of his Feelings, and the quickness of his 
Imagination, such was the greatness of his Un- 
derstanding, and the excellence of his Heart and 
Affections, as peculiarly qualified and determined 
him to soar above the licentious and corruptive; 
and to Ci set the Passions on the side of Truth ;" — 
a Merit which even the severity of Dr. Johnson 
has not prevented his Discernment from ascribing. 
I think that in reading these Aphorisms, not 
only the Man of Philosophy and of Piety will 
admire their Excellence, but the Soldier, the 
Statesman, the Lawyer, the Man in active 
Life, in its vast diversity of Pvelations, will feel, 
not without astonishment mixt with Veneration 
and Affection, how home they come (I repeat the 
remark) to his business and bosom ; and will not 
wonder that Mr. Capell should have intimated this 
their characteristic excellence, when dedicating his 
Edition to the Duke of Grafton, then a Minister of 



INTRODUCTION. XXI 

State. In that Day and since, some of the greatest 
of the Public Men whom we have had, Lords Chat- 
ham, Camden, Mansfield, Mr. Fox, have been well 
read in Shakespeare ; some few of the most emi- 
nent and best of the present day have treasured 
him in their Memories with the same zealous 
Admiration. And certainly, for integrity and 
depth of Wisdom, and the noblest and most 
benign Principles of Policy, I may appeal for the 
proof to this little Volume ; (without the neces- 
sity of examining the whole body of his Work 
with that view) they could hardly find a safer or 
a better Adviser; and no where any whose Wisdom 
is of an aspect more engaging and persuasive. 

It is pleasing to the Author of this Introduc- 
tion to think, that the idea of this Selection was 
form'd, and in a great measure carried into ef- 
fect by a young Lady ; " nella piujiorita 3? rerdc 
etate :" and her part of it completed in very few 
weeks, in the midst of various domestic objects 
of attention. 

From various causes, my part of this little 
Collection has been very long in hand. And 
small as this Volume is, it has been long in the 
Press. J have added Notes which sometimes serve 



Xxil INTRODUCTION, 

to shew imitation ; and oftener curious coinci- 
dences. Many of these tend to confirm the Re- 
marks of Sir John Suckling: others will give an 
idea of Shakespeare's scriptural Memory. 

Some, possibly, will remind the Reader of the 
Preface of Cervantes to his Knight of La Mancha: 
they are so easy and so obvious. But I regard 
Shakespeare as a man of assiduous reading and 
wonderful acuteness, range, and fulness of obser- 
vation, rather than of abstruse learning. Where> 
therefore, he may have either imitated, or occa- 
sionally translated, we must expect to find him 
chiefly conversant in Authors that were well 
known in his day*. 

General References are given ; chapter and page 
are seldom quoted ; the passages generally being 
well known. Much pains, as will be seen by those 
who attend to such particulars, has been taken 
in forming the Index: which will enable the 
Reader to find at once what Shakespeare has said 
on any particular Topic. Some attention has 
^en given to concentrate the object and bearing 
of the Aphorism into the shortest compass: or 

* The Progress, however, of my observations, has tended 
to increase my opinion of the knowledge of Shakespeare m 
Italian Poetry. 



. introduction. xxiii 

when that could net be done more "concisely than 
in the Aphorism itself, then to express the sub- 
ject in a single word. Considering the use of 
this, and the almost impossibility of forming an 
Index that should be useful or intelligible without 
it, I trust it will not be thought that such Heads 
to the Aphorisms are superfluous. An Expla- 
nation is added of the Marks used, where there 
is the least alteration made. 

I add an Appendix from the Miscellaneous 
Poems of Shakespeare : consisting of Aphorisms and 
of Practical Reflectioiis containing Aphorisms, which 
are, as it were, embost with brilliant imagery, 
like ore of iron, silver, or gold, running in veins 
amid pyrites and spars. Their number and their 
value will, I think, surprise; even after . thos e 
which the Reader wiil previously have had a n 
opportunity of considering. Especially if it be 
recollected how mere a Youtn he was when the 
two principal were written. 

I own, after a familiarity with his Writings, if 
I may be allowed the expression, of almost as 
long standing as my life has been, (for my excel- 
lent Mother made me acquainted with Shake- 
speare before I was seven years old) I am more 
and more astonisht that a life of 52 years— and 



XXIV IKf RODUCTION. 

but little part of his could be a life of studious 
leisure — should give time for such Attainments 
and Performances. 

Transcendant as his original and singular Ge- 
nius was, I think it is not easy, with due atten- 
tion to these Poems, to doubt of his having 
accjuir'd, when a boy, no ordinary facility in the 
classic language of Rome; though his knowledge 
of it might be small, comparatively, to the knowr 
ledge of that great and indefatigable Scholar, 
Ben Jonson. And when Jonson says he had " less 
Greek P" had it been true that he had none, it 
would have been as easy for the verse as for the 
sentiment to have said " no Greek." 

But what is of unspeakably more importance 
is, what his Genius, his Temper, his Morals were t : 
what treasures of Genius and of Goodness he has 
left us. And on this, naturally enthusiastic as 
his admirers have been, I believe it will be thought 
that they have said too little, rather than too 
much ; if it were not that such Excellence super- 
sedes encomium. 

I have preferred carrying on the Numbers, 

* " Small Latin, and less Greek." 

t Qu«Vita, qui More* fuerint. LJV. 



INTRODUCTION. XXV 

from the Dramatic Works to these, to beginning 
a Series. And I trust it will be thought prefer- 
able in all respects. 

In eight years more, two complete Centuries 
will have elapsed from the Death of Shakespeare, 
And although even with his contemporaries his 
estimation was high indeed, we have ever since 
been progressive in our Admiration and Affection 
for him, as our knowledge of the Principles of 
Poetry and of Human Nature has become more 
general, more correct, and refined. 

To present him to our Contemplation as a pre- 
eminently philosophic, and moral Poet, was one 
object of these Extracts : To give in a detacht 
form those passages which are most independent 
of the context, and which with most ease and 
benefit will implant themselves on the memory, 
was another closely connected with the first. 
And in his miscellcuieous Poems, particularly, 
there are many passages which beseems, like 
Butler, to have compil'd from little detacht 
Compositions which he had made : so that it is 
not wonderful that they should appear to more 
advantage when so re-detacht, if such be the fact, 
than in their connection with the Body of the 
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XXVi INTRODUCTION-. 

Poem ; which cannot be denied to be sometimes 
forc'd. 

Whether taken from his Plays or Miscellanies, 
considering whose they are, and what they 
are, it will not be vanity or presumption in me 
to remark, that I know not how to imagine that 
any one should rise from the perusal of this little 
-Volume without still higher thoughts of Shake* 
spear e than they brought with them when they 
sat down; some accession of intellectual strength ; 
improvement in the conduct of Life ; a more lively 
sense of the Beauty of Virtue, and of all the rela- 
tive Offices and Affections which cement and adorn 
Society, constituting individual Happiness and 
public Welfare. I know not any profest System 
of Ethics from which they could have been ex- 
tracted more copiously, more perspicuously, and 
correctly; or, by the influence of their form and 
manner, so impressively. 

And I think I may flatter myself this little 
Book may contribute to make Shakespeare even 
now more known among us : and to give To* 
reigners, should it fall into their hands, a more 
just sense of the greatness of his Intellect and 
the goodness of his Heart: the Merit of his Apho- 



INTRODUCTION. XXY11 

risms being such in kind and extent as they pro- 
bably have very little supposed. 

But as our Author reminds us, that " Good 
Wine needs no Bushy* I shall no longer detain the 
Reader from these rich and .salutary Fruits of 
this Shakesperian Vintage : which, while they 
animate and quicken the Intellect, will delight, 
without intoxicating, the Senses ; gladden and 
meliorate the Heart. 

CAPEL LOFFT* 

Troston Hall, near Bury, Suffolk; 
Uth May, 180S. 



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XXVlll INTRODUCTION. 

IF good Sense, and moral Wisdom, and a vivid 
perception of the relative Duties and Affections of 
Life be the essential element of all good Dramatic 
Writing, I should be strongly dispos'd to say 
that none ever exceeded Shakespeare in this : 
And to apply to him, with the chapge of Socrates 
to Shakespeare, the words of Horace*. 

Good Sense and moral Wisdom are the Source 

Whence the true Drama gains its purest force ; 

The leaves of Shakespeare with this power are fraught: 

Words follow prompt, when full and clear the thought* 

Who knows the due to Country, and to Friends; 

And what on Parents, Brethren, Guests, attends. 

Of wedded Love the chaste and tender ties ; 

The Order, Peace, and Bliss of Families ; 

And what the Judge, and what the Senator 

Becomes, and what the Leader of the War; 

He to each Character is sure to give 

The grace of Truth, and make it breathe and live. 

* Scribendi recte s after e est et Principium et Fons. 

Rem tibi Socratias poterunt ostendere Charts ; 

Verbaque provisam rem baud invita sequentur. 

Qui didicit Patriae quid debeat et quid Amicis, 

Quo sit amore Parens, quo Frater amandus et Hospes j 

Quod sit Conscript!, quod Judicis Qfficium ; qua 

Partes in Bellum missi Ducis, ille profecto 

JUddere personam scit convenientia cinque. HOF» 



INTRODUCTION,, XXIX 



ADDENDA. 

The Critical Reviewers, in giving an account cf Mr. 
Octavius Gilchrist's Examination of the Charges main* 
tained by Messrs. Malone, Chalmers, and others, of Ben 
Jonson's Enmity, &c. towards Shakespeare, (which I did 
not see till long after the previous part of this Introduc- 
tion was written and printed) thus express themselves : 

" Though Shakespeare and Jonson were con- 
temporaries, yet they were not rivals ; they had 
both merit, and though that of Shakespeare was 
transcendant, yet it differed not only in degree 
but in kind from that of Jonson. Shakespeare 
was too great to be envied * : and Jonson appears 
to have had none of that malicious venom in his 
•composition. We seldom cordially praise, when 
dead, the individual towards whom we have 
been clandestinely hostile and secretly bitter 
when alive. But the praises which Jonson 
showered on the urn of Shakespeare, were evi- 

* It is, perhaps, clearer and more just to say, Jonson was 
too great to envy. No Excellence on Earth exalts above 
Envy ; which is not Emulation of attainable perfection, but 
Hat!«ed of that Excellence which the Envier despairs of 
attaining* 

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SKXK INTRODUCTION. 

dently not the effect of constraint but choice; 
they do not betray the marks of affected regard 
and concealed dislike ; they are hot the cant of 
hypocritical encomium, but the genuine unvi- 
tiated tribute of the heart. The lines which 
Jonson inserted under the portrait of Shake- 
speare, and those which he dedicated to his 
memory, bear evident marks of his veneration 
for the poet, and of his personal esteem for the 
man. Mr. Farmer justly says that Ben's verses 
on him who wrote for all time are i the warmest 
panegyrick that ever was written/ We shall 
quote the inscription under the picture, and af- 
terwards the verses addressed to his memory, in 
which. ; though he notices his defect of classical 
erudition, yet this is not said to diminish but 
to exalt his fame ; for he places the productions 
of his genius above * all that insolent Greece or 
haughty Rome sent forth/ And passes on his 
genius this deserved sublimity of eulogy, that— 
' He was not of an age ; but for all time/ 
addressing him in terms which envy may hypo- 
critically employ towards the living, but which 
when hypocrisy is no longer necessary, it seldom. 
.uses to the dead : 



INTRODUCTION. XXXi 

Written under the Portrait of Shakespeare; 
JPrefxtto the fir it and second Editions of his Plays* 

i This figure that thou here seest put 

It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; 

Wherein the graver had a strife 

With nature, to outdo the life. 

O, could he but have drawn his wit 

As well in brass, as he hath hit 

His face, the print would then surpass 

All that was ever writ in brass ; 

But since he cannot, reader look, 

Not on his picture, but his book. 1 B. J, 



^o tfje ajtmotp of 

MY BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, 

M*. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE*, 

And what he hath left Us. 



TO -draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name^ 
Am I thus ample to thy book, and fame; 
While I confess thy writings to be such, 
As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much; 
'Tis true, and all men'i suffrage ; but these wars 
Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise : 
For seeliest ignorance an these may light, 
Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; 
Or blind affection^ which doth ne'er advance 
The truth 4 but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; 
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, 
And think to ruin, where it seem'd to raioe : 
These are, as sorm infamous bawd, or whore, 
Should praise a matron ; what could hurt her more ? 
But thou art proof against them ; and, indeed, 
Above the ill fortune of them, or the r 



• In the 24 wl 1639 



XXXll INTRODUCTION. 

I, therefore, will begin: — Soul of the age, 

The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, 

My Shakespeare rise ! I will not lodge thee by 

Chaucer or Spenser ; or bid Beaumont lie 

A little further, to make thee a room * ; 

Thou art a monument without a tomb; 

And art alive still, while thy book doth live, 

And we have wits to read and praise to give. 

That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses ; 

I mean, with great but disproportion 'd muses j 

For., if I thought my judgement were of years, 

I should commit thee surely with thy peers; 

And tell — how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, 

Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line. 

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. 

From thence to honour thee, I would not seek. 

For names ; but call forth thund'ring iEscbylus, 

Euripides, and Sophocles, to us, 

Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, 

To life again, to hear thy buskin tread 

And shake a Stage ; or, when thy socks were on* 

Leave thee alone ; for the comparison 

Of all that insolent Greece, or haughty Rome> 

Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. 

Triumph, my Britain! thou hast one to show,, 

To whom all Scenes of .Europe homage owe* 

He was not of ah Age, but for all Time ; 

And all the Muses still were in their prime, 

When like Apollo he came forth to warm 

Our ears, or like a Mercury to charra. 

Nature herself was proud of his designs, 

And ipy-d to wear the dressing of his lines; 

Which were so richly spun, and- woven «o fit, 

As 5 since, she will vouchsafe no other wit : 

The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, 

Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; 



* This is an allusion to the following lines in a commendatory poem 
OK Shakespeare by William Basse ; 

Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh 

To learned Chaucer • and rare Beaumont lie 

A little nearer Sgeriser ; to make room 

Fox pfegkespearCj in your three-fold four-Sold ton ;>. 



IXTKODUCTIOK', XXXU1 

But antiquated and deserted lie, 

As they were not of Nature's family. 

Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, 

My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part :—=> 

For though the Poet's matter Nature be, 

His Art doth give the fashion : and that he, 

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, 

(Such as thine are) and strike the second heat 

-Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, 

(And himself with it) that he thinks to frame ; 

•Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — 

For a good Poet's made, as well as born : 

And such wert thou. Look, how the father's face 

Lives in his issue ; even so the race 

Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines 

In his weli-torned and true-filed lines ; 

In each of which he seems to shake a lance 

As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 

Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, 

To see thee in our waters yet appear ; 

And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, 

That so did take Eliza, and our James! 

But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere 

Advanc'd, and made a constellation there :— 

Shine forth, thou Star of Poets*; and with rage, 

Or influence, chide, or cheer, the drooping stage; 

Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourr/d like 

night, 
And despairs day, but for thy Volume's light I 

BEN JONSON. 

In short, in the praise which Jonson bestows 
on Shakespeare we see rather the full and un. 
restrained homage of unfeigned affection than 
the niggardly payment of latent envy and con- 



* A Comet in 1618, very conspicuous, perhaps contributed 
tp suggest this imagery. 



XXXIV INTRODUCTION, 

cealed detraction. The commendation is not 
destroyed by any qualifying clause nor any ar- 
tifice of invidious extenuation. Many years 
after Shakespeare's death Ben with warmth ex- 
claimed, ' I loved the man and do honour his 
memory on this side idolatry as much as any. 
He was indeed honest and of an open and free 
nature, had an excellent phantasy, brave no* 
tions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed 
with that facility that sometimes it was necessary 
he should be stopped; sufflamhiandus erat, as 
Augustus said of Harterius/ We have distinct 
and incontrovertible proof that Ben Jonson did 
profess to esteem the worth and to venerate the 
genius of Shakespeare, and not a particle of 
proof has been adduced to shew that he professed 
what he did not feel ; and that like some of his 
commentators, he secretly calumniated whom 
he affected to praise." — Crit. Rev. July 1808. 



CHARACTERS: 

AND THEIR EXPLANATION. 



^ Slight Alteration. 

f Addition. 

X Greater Alteration. 

+- Change of Grammar. 

© Aphoristic Basis extracted, and the Aphorism 

conveyed in nezv Expression. 
«[ Accommodation of the Words to a different 

Meaning. 
££ Aphorism applied in the Original to a particular 

occasion; but detacht as an Expression of a 

General Truth. 
JV Only Dramatically true, 
* Ironical. 

Where Figures, 2, 3, fyc. fqttouo at the Head 

of successive Aphorisms, they indicate that 

the same Character is to be understood until 

another be introduced. 

N. B. Where any of these Marks have Notes with cor- 
responding Marks, they are in that cas* used as mere Re- 
ferences, 



SHAKESPEMAM 
APHORISMS. 

BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT* HAMLET. 

In small room great heart enclosed : 

These are his substance, sinews, and his strength. 

I. HEN. VI, 

Moiv cbarmltig is divine Philosophy / 
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull Fools suppose, 
But musical as is Apollo's Luttj 
And a perpetual Feast of nectar' 'd sweets. 
Where no crude Surfeit reigns t 

COMUS OF MILTON. 



APHORISMS. 

HAMLET. 

1. DETECTION". 

Jr oul Deeds will rise, 
Tho' all the Earth overwhelm them, to men's eyes, 

2. DEATH, 

All that live, must die ; 
Passing through Nature to Eternity. 

3. GRIEF, OBSTINATE. 

To persevere 
In obstinate lamenting is a course 
Of impious stubbornness : — unmanly grief: 
It shews a will most uncorrect to Heaven ; 
A heart unfortified ; or mind impatient; 
An understanding simple and unschool'd. 
For what we know must be, and is as common 
As any the most vulgar thing to sense, 
Why should we, in our peevish opposition, 
So take to heart r — It is a fault to Heaven : 
A fault against the Dead ; a fault to Nature. 

4. SUICIDE. 

J The Everlasting fixes 
His canon* 'gainst self-slaughter. 

* Rule, Law. C I . 

\Tbe same is to be "understood as the 

signature of the other MoUsJj 

B 2 



4 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet, 

5. CALUMNY. 

Virtue itself "scapes not calumnious strokes. 

6. caution. 
Best safety lies in fear. 

7. 
Give every man thine ear; but few thy voice. 

8, 
Take each man's censure ;but reserve thyjudgment, 

9, YOUTH.. 

Youth to itself rebels though none else near. 

10. 
The canker gnaws the infants of the Spring 
Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd : 
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth 
Contagion's blastments are most perilous. 

11. LET' EX AMPLE ACCOMPANY PRECEPT, 

§ Do not, as some ungracious Pastors do, 
Shew us the steep and thorny way to Heaven : 
While like a puft and reckless libertine, 
Thyself the primrose path of dalliance tread'st, 
And reck'st not thine own reed.. 

12. DISCRETION, 

Give thy thoughts no tongue. 

13. MODERATION. 

Give to no unproportion'd thought his act. 

14. MANNERS, 

Be thou familiar ; but by no means vulgar. 

15. PRUDENCE WITH RESOLUTION. 

Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, 
Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee* 

16. FRIENDS. 

The Friends thou hast and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel* 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. 5 

17. DRESS. 

The apparel oft proclaims the man. 

IS. SELF-ESTEEM. 

To thine own self be true : 

Thou can'st not then be false to any man. 

19. COURTESY. 

A double blessing is a double grace ; 
Occasion smiles upon a second leave *. 

20. BORROWING. 

Loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 

21. vows. 

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 
Lends the tongue vows. 

22. VOWS OF LOVERS. 

Vows in love are brokers, 
The mere implorers of unholy suits, 
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, 
The better to beguile. 

23. CUSTOMS. 

K There are customs 
More honour' d in the breach than in the obser- 

24. DEBASEMENT. [vanCC 

There are men 
Who carrying the stamp of one defect, 
Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, 
As infinite as Man may undergo, 
Shall in the general censure take corruption 
From that particular fault. 

25. The dram of base 

Doth all the noble substance of worth out, 
To his own scandal. 

* That is, it is then time to be gone. 
B 3 



6 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet, 

2(5. FIRMNESS OF VIRTUE. 

Virtue never will be mov'd, 
Though lewdness court it in a shape of Heaven ; 
But Vice, though to a radiant Angel linkt, 
Will sate itself of a celestial bed. 

27. hypocrisy. 

One may smile and smile and be a villain, 

28. With devotion's visage 
And pious action we do sugar o'er 
The Devil himself. 

29. DOUBLE MEANING. 

tThe Harlot's cheek, beautied by plastering art, 
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it, 
Than are vile meanings hid in specious words. 

30. futurity. 

IfThink of something after Death : 
And let us rather bear the ills we have, 
Than fly to others that we know not of, 

31. beauty and virtue. 

Beauty cannot have better commerce than, 
with honesty. 

32. flattery. 

1 Let the false candied tongue lick absurd pomp, 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 
Where profit follows fawning, 

33. MUCH UNKNOWN. 

§ There are more things in Heaven and Earth 
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. 

34. love inspires courage. 
Love leads the will to desperate undertakings 
As oft as any passion under Heaven. 

35. manners of age and youth. 
It is as proper to old age 

To cast beyond itself in it's opinions 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. f 

As it is common for the younger sort 
To lack discretion. 
36. CHANGE. 

It is a transformation 
When nor the 'exterior nor the inward man 
Resembles that it was. 

37* WISHES OF KINGS. 

Kings, by their sovereign power, 

Put their dread pleasures more into command 

Than to entreaty, 

38. CONCISENESS. 

Brevity is the soul of wit. 

. 39. TRUE INTEGRITY. 

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be a 
man pickt out of ten thousand. 

40. MAN HIS DIGNITY. 

What a piece of work is Man ! how noble in 
reason ; how vast in faculties ; in form and moving 
how express and admirable ! in action how like an. 
Angel; in apprehension how like a God! the 
beauty of the world ; the paragon of animals. 

41. COMPOSITION — SIMPLICITY. 

X In Dramatic Composition and ail just writing 
a good method is wholesome as sweet; and by 
v^ry much more handsome than fine. 

42. POWER OF THE DRAMA. 

A just and a well-acted Play 
Slakes mad the Guilty. 

43. JUSTICE. 

H Use every man after his desert. 

44. DETECTION. 

Murther, though it have no tongue, will speak 
With most miraculous organ. 



S SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet. 

45. GENEROUS SENSIBILITY. 

To the noble mind 
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 

46\ DRAMATIC ACTION. 

Suit the action to the word ; the word to the 
action : with this special observance, that you 
o'erstep not the modesty of Nature. 

47. actors. 

Let those who play clowns speak no more 
than is set down for them. For there be that 
will themselves laugh to set some quantity of 
barren spectators to laugh also. This shews a 
most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 

48. MAGNANIMITY. 

t A Man truly great 
Will be in suffering all as suffering nothing : 
As one that Fortune's buffets or rewards 
Hath taken with equal thanks. 

49. EQUANIMITY. 

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, 
And I will wear him in my heart of hearts ; 
In my heart's core. 

50. LOVE AND APPREHENSION. 

Fear and Love hold quantity : 

In neither aught*; or in extremity. 

51- 
Where Love is great the smallest doubts are Fear : 
Where little Fears grow great, great Love grows 

52. passionate resolves. [there. 
What to ourselves in passion we propose 

The passion ending doth the purpose lose. 

53. passion in extremes. 
The violence of either grief or joy 

* In either nought, would be cleai 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. 

Their own enactures with themselves destroy. 

.54. 
Where joy most revels grief doth most lament ; 
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. 

55. MUTABILITY OF LIFE. 

This world is not for aye. 

56. 
The great man down, you mark his favourite flies ; 
The poor advanced, makes friends of enemies. 

57. FALSE FRIENDS, 

He who not needs shall never lack a friend. 

58. POSTHUMOUS FAME. 

* A great man's memory may outlive his life half a 

59. FRIENDSHIP FALSE. [je ar * 

He who in want a hollow Friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his Enemy. 

60. CONSCIENCE. 

Let the galled wince. 

61. VIGILANCE AND SECURITY. 

Some must watch, while some sleep. 

62. DUTIES RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC. 

The single and peculiar life is bound 
With all the strength and armour of the mind, 
To keep itself from 'noyance ; but much more 
That Spirit on whose weal depend and rest 
The lives of many. 

63. CHILDREN. 

In what concerns a Child 
? Tis meet that some more audience than a Mother, 
Since Nature makes them partial, should deter- 
Upon it's merit. [mine 

64. PRAYER. 

In prayer is two-fold force : 
To be forestalled ere we come to fall, 



10 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet 

Or pardon'd, being down. 

65. REPENTANCE. 

X Say not u Forgive my crime," when still possest 
Of those effects for which thou did'st the crime. 

66. 
Who can be pardon'd and retain the offence. 

67. DIVINE JUSTICE. 

§ In the corrupted currents of this world, 
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, 
And in worst times the wretched prize itself 
Buys out the Law. But 'tis not so above ; 
There is no shuffling: there the action lies 
In it's true nature, and we ourselves compell'd, 
E'en to the teeth and forehead of our faults, 
To give in evidence. 

68. MERCY. 

Whereto serves mercy, 
But to confront the visage of offence? 

6§. REPENTANCE. 

ft Try what repentance can, what can it not — 
But what can aught when habits are so fi&i 
That we cannot repent. 

70. FRAUD AND PERJURY. 

§ There are those 
Who from the body of a contract pluck 
It's very soul : and sweet Religion make 
A rhapsody of words. 

71. PRAYER. 

Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. 

72. APPREHENSION. 

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 

73. OPPRESSION. 

In the vile rankness of abandoned times 
Virtue itself of Vice must pardon beg, 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. 11 

Yea court and woo for leave to do it good. 

74. HABIT. 

Assume a virtue if you have it not : 

That monster custom, who all sense doth eat, 

Of habits evil, is Angel yet in this, 

That to the use of actions fair and good 

He likewise gives a frock and livery 

That aptly is put on. 

75. Refrain to-night, 

And that shall lend a kind of easiness 
To the next abstinence ; — the next more easy, 
For use almost can change the stamp of Nature : 
And master e'en the Devil, or throw him out, 
With wond'rous potency. 

76. SELF-DECEIT. 

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul 
That not your trespass but detraction speaks : 
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place; 
While rank Corruption, mining all within, 
Infects unseen. 

77. REPENTANCE, WITH AMENDMENT, 

Confess yourself to Heaven : 
Repent what's past ; avoid what is to come : 
And do not spread the compost on the weeds 
To make them ranker. 

7$. SEVERITY FRIENDLY. 

Sometimes in our speech 
We must be cruel only to be kind. 

79' POPULAR PREPOSSESSION. 

The distracted Multitude 
Oft like not in their judgment but their eyes, 

80. PUNISHMENT. 

Where punishment 



i2 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet. 

Exceeds it's bounds, the offender's scourge is 
But never the offence. [weigh'd, 

81. DESPERATE REMEDIES. 

Diseases desperate grown, 
By desperate appliance are relieved, 
Or not at all. 

82. DIFFUSIVENESS OF SLANDERc 

Slander 
With whisper o'er the world's diameter 
As certain as the cannon to his blank, 
Transports his venom' d shot. 

83. IDLENESS AND INTEMPERANCE. 

What is Man, 
If his chief good be but to sleep and feed ? 

84. USE OF TALENTS. 

Sure, He that made us with such large discourse*? 
-Looking before, and after, — gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To rust in us unus'd* 

85. HONOR. 
Rightly, to be great 

Is not, not to stir without great argument. 
But bravely to find matter in a straw || 
When Honor's at the stake. 

86. SACRIFICE OF HUMAN LIFEe 

Twenty thousand men 
Will for a fantasy and trick of fame 
Go to their graves like beds. 

* The word is used here for discussive faculty : as in the nervous old 
French of Amyot in his Plutarch : with whom Shakespeare was much 
familiar. 

|| This can not be received as a general maxim : as such it has been 
most fertile of evil to individuals and to society. Though true Honor 
be inestimable, captiousness is no part of it. But the maxim is drama- 
tically just, as applied to the character and the moment. 



Hamlet.] APHORISxMS, 13 

87. AFFLICTIONS. 

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. 
But in battalions. 

88. AFFECTION — DELICATE. 

Nature is fine in love : and where 'tis fine, 
It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves. 

&9- EQUANIMITY. 

X Those men who are not splenetive and rash 
Have in their coolness something dangerous, 
Which rashness ought to fear, 

90. INTERFERENCE. 

? Tis dangerous when the baser Nature comes 
Between the pass and fell incensed points 
Of mighty opposites. 

91. PROVIDENTIAL GUIDANCE. 

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 
When our deep plots do fail. And that should teach 
There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, [us 

Rough-hew them how we will. 

92. PROVIDENCE. 

There is a special Providence in the fall of a 

93. NO ILL BUT GUILT. [spaiTOW. 

Of Death we may say, if it be now it is not to 
come ; if it be not to come it will be now ; if it be 
not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. 
f And in all displeasing events that take place, 
without our faul t,either happening or apprehended? 
we may have similar comfort. 

04. DEATH EARLY. 

Since no man of aught he leaves knows, 
What is 't to leave in time ? 



14 SHAKESPERIAN [Rich. III. 

Q5. RETRIBUTION". 

Foul* practices 
Turn on their authors. 

96. RASH CENSURE. 

X Oft times a wounded name, 
The circumstance unknown, men leave behind 
Who highly merit glory, or at least [them ? 

Deserve not bitter censure. 

97. retribution. [blame. 
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of 

RICHARD III. 

98. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

© The body is prognostic of the mind. 

99> THE UNAMIABLE WILL BE FEARED, 

© Who cannot be belov'd seek to be fear'd. 

100. TRIUMPH OF THE VILE. 

More pity that the Eagle should be mew'd, 
While Kites and Buzzards prey at liberty. 

101. CHARITY. 

Charity 
Will render good for bad ; blessings for curses* 

102. COMPASSION. 

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, 

103. CRUELTY FOR KINDNESS. 

It is a quarrel most unnatural 

To be revenged upon those who love us. 

104. SIMPLICITY. 

Cannot a plain man live and think no harm, 
But that his simple truth must be abus'd ? 

105. CONSCIENCE. 

The worm of conscience still gnaws the soul. 

106'. INJUSTICE UNIVERSALLY ODIOUS. 

X Tyrants will weep at tyranny reported. 



Rich. III.] APHORISMS, 15 

107. 

X No man bat prophecies revenge on crimes. 

108. CRIMINALS FIRST TO ACCUSE. 

yi Who does the wrong oft first begins to brawl. 

109- HYPOCRISY. 

G Hypocrisy will cloath it's villainy 

With odd old ends stolen forth from holy writ, 

And seem a Saint when most it plays the Devil. 

110. JUDGE NOT BEFORE THE TIME. 

>£ Before he be convict by course of law 
To threat a man with death is most unlawful. 

111. CONSCIENCE. 

Conscience to all accuseth every crime. 

112. GOD TO BE OBEYED BEFORE MAN. 

The great King of Kings 
Hath in the table of his law commanded 
That thou shalt do no Murther. Wilt thou then 
Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a Man's ? 

113. DIVINE JUSTICE. 

Take heed : — for God holds vengeance in his hand 
To hurl upon their heads that break his law. 

114. PRINCES. 

Princes have but their titles for their glories ; 
An outward honour for an inward toil. 

115. JUSTICE DIVINE. 

God needs no indirect nor lawless course 
To cut off those who have offended him. 

11(5. VILLAINS HATE THEIR TOOLS. 

X He who sets men on 
To do a crime, will hate them for the crime. 

117. sorrow. 
Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours ; 
Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night. 
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16 SHAKESPERIAN [Rich. III. 

118. DISTRESS OF PRINCES. 

A begging Prince what beggar pities not? 

119. CURSES. 

Curses never pass 
The lips of those that breathe them in the air. 

120. WANT OF PITY. 

Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish, 

121. OMNIPOTENCE. 

He who is the supreme King of Kings 
Confoundeth hidden falsehood, 

122. GOVERNMENT. 

Woe to that land that's governed by a child. 

123. INGRATITUDE. 

§ ; Tis caird ungrateful 
With dull unwillingness to repay a debt, 
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent. 
M uch more when our impatience wars with Heaven 
For taking back the blessing it hath lent us. 

124. Ingratitude is monstrous. 

125. PREVENTION. 

§ As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent, 
Should be prevented. 

126. 
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; 
When the Sun sets who doth not look for night ? 

127. STORMS UNSEASONABLE. 

Untimely storms make men expect a dearth. 

128. PRESENTIMENT. 

By a divine instin'ct, men's minds mistrust 
Ensuing danger : as, by proof, we see 
The water swell before a boisterous storm. 

129. prematurity. [apace. 
Small herbs have grace ; great weeds do grow 



Rich. III.] APHORISMS. 17 

130. 
Sweet flowers are slow; and weeds make haste. 

131. THE MIND ? S MEASURE OF TIME. 

Crosses on the way 
Make the way tedious, wearisome, and heavy. 

132. FAME. 

Without characters* Fame lives long. 

133. DOUBLE MEANING. 

Iniquity 
Can moralize — two meanings in a word. 

134. RELIANCE UPON HUMAN SUPPORT, 

O ! momentary grace of mortal men, 

Which we more hunt for than the grace of God, 

Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks, 

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast; 

Ready with every nod to tumble down 

Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

135. DEATH — U NTH OUGHT. 

X They smile at Death who shortly shall be dead [|. 

136. DEATH. 

'Tis a vile thing to die 
When men are unprepared, and look not for it. 

137. oppression. 

X Bad is the world and all will come to nought, 
When wicked actions must be hid in thought, 
And none dares say he sees them. 

138. how to compare events. 
Compare past woes with present happiness. 

139- CALAMITY. 

Why should calamity be full of words f ? 

* This accent, distinguishing characters as letters, may he called the 
learned one. 

IJ " Most men think all men mortal but themselves.*' Young, 
t " Curae leves loquentur ; ingentes stupent." 

" c 3 



13 SHAKESPERIAN [Rich. III. 

140. RELIEF OF SORROW. 

When Grief essays to speak, 
Let words have scope : tho' what they do impart 
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. 

141. BY CUSTOM, OR TIME. 

Use makes Grief tame. 

142. DIVINE JUSTICE. 

K That high All-seer whom men dally with, 
Oft turns their feigned prayer upon their head. 

143. 
Heaven oft hath forc'd the swords of wicked men 
To turn their points against their master's bosoms. 

144. DEFENCE OF OUR COUNTRY. 

If you do fight against your Country's foes, 
Your Country's bliss shall pay your pains the hire ; 
If you do fight in safeguard of your wives, 
Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors ; 
If you do free your children from the sword, 
Your children's children quit it in your age. 

145. CIVIL WAR. 

In civil war 
The brother blindly sheds his brother's blood ; 
The father madly slaughters his own son; 
The son is murtherer of the sire. 

146. VOLUNTEERS. 

Those best can aid in war that are most willing. 

147. SIMPLICITY. 

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. 

148. HOPE. 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. 

149. UNEQUAL TREATY. 

What good condition can a treaty find 
r the part that is at mercy ? 



Coriolanus.] APHORISMS. 19 

CORIOLANUS. 

150. war. 

Hope not who lose the field to keep the town. 

151. COURAGE. 

© Boldness is not subtile, 

152. INSTINCT. 

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends, 

153. NATURAL DETECTS. 

We call a nettle but a nettle ; and 
The faults of fools but folly. 

154. POPULARITY FALSE. 

There have been many great men that have 
flattered the People who ne'er lov'd them. 

155. PREPOSSESSION. 

§ Those who love they know not why, hate 
upon no better ground. 

156. UNPOPULAR MANNERS. 

To seem to affect the malice and displeasure of 
the People is as bad as to natter them for their 
love. 

157. full; not prolix. 
Leave nothing out for length. 

158. magnanimity. 

§ True valour 
Had rather have it's wounds to heal again. 
Than listen how it got them. 

159. fortitude. 
Fortitude is the leading Virtue, and 
Most dignifies the haver*. 

160. gratitude, public, 

X Noble deeds 
Should meet as noble an acceptance, 



20 SHAKESPERIAN [Coriolanus, 

l6l. SELECTION IN FRIENDSHIP. 

X It is virtuous to be universal in justice and 
benevolence ; but not common in one's friendship. 

l6'2. FLATTERY. 

t Rather than flatter and be base for station, 
Let the high office and the honour go 
To such as would do thus. 

163. PROGRESS OF EVIL. 

>£ In ill half through, 
The one part suffer'd, the other men will do. 

164. CUSTOM NOT ALWAYS PR.EFER ABLE, 

What custom wills, in all things should we do it, 
The dust on antique Time would lie unswept, 
And mountainous error be too highly heapt 
For truth to overpeer. 

165. WIT. 

Wit is strongly wedg'd up in a blockhead, 

166. IRPvITATION. 

©Artful men put the passionate to rage, 
And thus they take advantage of their choler, 
'Tis an unworthy triumph. 

167. COLLISION OF POWERS. 

When two authorities are up, 
Neither supreme, how soon confusion 
May enter 'tween the gap of both and take , 
The one by the other. 

168. HONOUR. 

Better to starve — 
Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. 

169. CLAMOUR. 

Tongues cry against the rectorship of judgment. 

170. REBELLION. 

§ In a rebellion 



Coriolanus.] APHORISMS. 21 

Not what is meet but what must be is law*. 

171. MAGNANIMITY. 

X Some natures are too noble for this world. 

172. DISCRIMINATION. 

© Who truly knows a great man's worthiness, 
To his faults is not blind. 

173. APOSTASY INEXCUSABLE. 

Let it suffice if while men love their Country, 
Their country honours them. — The service of the 
Being once gangren'd, is not then respected [foot 
For what it was before,* 

174. fitness. 

Let what is meet be said, 

175. A STATE. 

What is the City but the People || ? 

176. PALLIATIVES. 

Cold ways, 
That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous 
Where the disease is violent. 

177. RAGE LEARNS REPENTANCE. 

Tyger-footed rage, when it shall find 

The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late 

Tye leaden pounds to it's heels, 

178. SINCERITY. 

>£ Never wish a man 
False to his nature. Rather let him play 
Nobly, the man be is. 

179- ARROGANCE. 

X An haughty overweening wears power out 
Ere it is well put on. 

* This is true in Fact ; but false in Bight. 

I! Agreeably to Classic Antiquity. Thus Sir Wm. Jones, in his noblf 
Ode—" What constitutes a State ?" 



%% SHAKESPERIAN [Coriolanus* 

180. PROSPERITY. 

§ Pride out of daily fortune hourly taints 
The happy man. 

181. NECESSITY OF PRUDENCE. 

Tis a defect of judgment 
To fail in the disposal of those chances 
We are made Lords of. 

182. PARDON A ROYAL VIRTUE. 

Royal it is to pardon, 
When it is least expected. 

183. COMPASSION. 

Of no relenting tenderness to be 

Requires nor child nor woman's face to see. 

184. REPENTANCE FOLLOWS VIOLENCE, 

In deeds of violence, when rage is gone, 

Great minds are struck with unavailing sorrow. 

185. HONOUR AND POLICY. 

Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, 
In the war do grow together. Grant that, and tell me 
In peace what each of them by the other loses, 
That they combine not there ? 

186. ACTION. 

Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant 
More learned than the ears, 

187. HONOUR. 

Rather 
Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf, 
Than flatter him in a bower. 

188. 
Must a base tongue give to a noble heart 
A lie that it must bear ? 

189- ADVERSITY. 

Extremity is the trier of the spirits. 



Coriolanus.] APHORISMS, 23 

190. ADVERSITY. 

Common chances common men can bear. 

When the sea is calm all boats alike 
Shew mastership in floating. 

192. REGRET. 

A man is lov'd when he is lack'd. 

193. GRIEF IN AGE. 

An old man's tears are Salter than a youth'-, 

194. RESIGNATION. 

? Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes 
As 'tis to laugh at them. 

195. OCCASION. 

Advantage ever cools 
In the absence of the needer. 

196. MODERATION. 

4- Having shewn our power, 
Let us seem humbler after it is done, 
Than when it was in doing. 

197. DISSENTION. 

Friends, — how fast sworn,— 
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, 
Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise, 
Are still together, who twin (as 'twere) in love 
Inseparable, shall, within an hour, 
On a dissention of a doit, break out 
To bitterest enmity. 

198. POPULAR ESTIMATION. 

Our virtues 
Lie in the interpretation of the times. 

199. Power 
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair 



24 SHAKESPERIAN [Hen. VIIL 

To extol what it hath done*. 

200. PARDON. 

i When pardon comes for acts which merit praise,. 
It is a bare petition of a State, 
To one whom it has punish'd. 

201. INJURY. 

Injury is the jailor of Pity ||. 

202. DEATH. 

He that hath a will to die by himself, fears it 
not from another. 



HENRY VIIL 

203. DIFFICULTIES MAY BE OVERCOME. 

To climb steep hills 
Requires slow pace at first. 

204. NOVELTY. 

© Him in eye 
Still him in praise with vulgar eyes and hearts, 
While novelty holds force. 

205. HONOUR IN HONESTY. 

Affect 
In honour honesty. 

206. PRE-EMINENCE BY MERCY, 

X Times there are, 
When men not propt by ancestry, nor allied 
To eminent assistants, spider-like, 
Out of their self-drawn web give the world note, 
The force of their own merit makes their way; 
A gift that Heaven gives for them, and which buys 
Station pre-eminent. 

* That is, exaltation, by exciting envy, often is the grave of power r 
and sinks fame in oblivion — Omnium judicio ciignus imperionisi impef 
asset. 

jj That is, the sense of injury is too apt to restrain pity. 



Hen. VIII.] APHORISMS, 25 

207. PRODIGALITY RUINS ESTATES. 

X Many 
Have broke their backs by laying Manors on them- 
For earthly hopes and pageants : and by this 
So sicken' d their estates that haply never 
They shall abound as formerly. 

208. REASON AGAINST PASSION. 

Let your reason with your choler question 
What 'tis you go about. 

209« LEARNING MORE NOBLE THAN TITLE. 

A beggar's book outvvorths a noble's blood *. 

210. ANGER. 

Anger is like a full hot horse, 

Who being allowed his way, self-mettle tires him. 

211. FOLLY OF PvEVENGE. 

Heat not a furnace || for your foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself. 

212. REASON AND PASSION. 

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion, 

213. SELF-ESTEEM. 

Love yourself: and in that love, 
Not unconsidered leave your honour. 

214. PRECIPITANCE. 

We may out-run 
By violent swiftness that which we run at: 
And lose by over-running. 

215. 
The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er 
By seeming to augment it wastes it. 

* This is applied sarcastically in the Drama : but it is true that 
Genius and Learning, when pre-eminent and suitably applied, have that 
internal Nobility which transcends Ancestry > more than Ancestry U 
above Wealth. 

!| The metaphorical turn of this Aphorism gives it a very Pythagoreao 
cast. It seems at the same time to allude to Shadiach, Meshach, and 
Abednego. 

D 



26 SIIAKESPERIAN [Hen. VIII. 

2l6. CHARITY IN ACCUSING. 

If thou do accuse, 
Produce an enemy in that very shape 
He shall appear in proof. — Deliver all 
In charity. 
217. 

Take heed 
Yon charge not in your spleen a noble person.. 
And spoil your soul. 

218. ACCUSATION CALUMNIOUS. 

Come not in way of accusation 

To taint that honour every good tongue blesses. 

219- LAW; NOT MALICE. 

When faults lie open to the Law, let that, 
Not you, correct them. 

220. DETRACTION. 

To be traduc'd by ignorant tongues 
Is the rough brake that Virtue must go through. 

221. We must not stint 
Our necessary actions, in fear 
To cope malicious censurors. 

222. CONFIDENCE JUST. 

Things done well 
Exempt themselves from fear. 

223. INNOVATION. 

Things done without example 
Are to be fear'd. 

224. CORRUPTION FROM GOOD. 

I When education, learning, eloquence, — 
All these so noble benefits, — shall prove 
Not well disposed, the mind grown once corrupt, 
They turn to vicious forms ten times more ugly 
Than ever they were fair. 



Hen. VIIL] APHORISMS. 27 

225. FASHION. 

New customs, 
Though ihev be ever so ridiculous, 
Yea let them be unmanly, still are follow d, 

226. FASHION. 

An Englishman may still be wise, 
Though he ne'er saw the Louvre. 

227. MERCY LEGAL IS JUSTICE. 

If the worst offender may 
Find mercy in the law, 'tis his. 

228. POPULAR ESTIMATION. 

What we oft do best, 
By sick interpreters is not allow'd ; 
What worst, is oft cry'd up for our best action. 

229. WOMEN. 

Two women plac'd together makes cold weather. 

230. CONFIDENCE MISPLACED. 

Where you are liberal of your loves, and counsels, 
Be sure you be not loose: for those you make friends, 
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive 
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away 
Like water from ye, never found again 
But where they mean to sink ye. 

231. GRANDEUR. 

If majesty and pomp attach the heart, 

To leave's a thousand times more bitter than 

'Tis sweet at first to acquire. 

232. RELIGION TEACHERS OF IT. 

They should be good men whose employ is 
righteous. 

233. OBSCURITY AFFECTED. 

A strange tongue makes a cause more strange ; sus- 
picious. 

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28 SHAKESPERIAN [Hen. VIII. 

234. RESIGNATION. 

THE WILL OF HEAVEN 
BE DONE IN ALL THINGS. 

235. GRIEF. 

Grief makes bold mouths. 

236. MAGNANIMITY UNSUSPICIOUS. 

A noble spirit ever casts 
Doubts, as false coin, from it. 

23/. POVERTY SHOULD BE BEFRIENDED. 

Stand the poor people's friend. 

238. HUMILITY. 

The blessedness of being little. 

239- REST SHOULD HAVE It's SEASON. 

There should be hoiirs for necessities 
As for delights : — Times to repair our nature 
With comforting repose, and not for us 
To waste. 

240. VIRTUE ABOVE SELFISHNESS. 

A good man stands upon his truth and honesty. 
If they should fail he with his enemies [not, 

Would triumph o'er his person ; which he wishes 
Being of those virtues vacant, and fears nothing 
What can be said against him. 

241. MEDIOCRITY OF STATION. 

'Tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk VI up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 

242. ADVANCEMENT. 

Honour's train 
Is longer than his fore-skirt. 

243. DETRACTION. 

Many enemies, like village curs, 
JJark when their fellows do. 



Ben. VIII.] APHORISMS. 29 

244. CONTENT. 

Our content is our best having. 

245. APPEARANCES. 

All hoods make not monks. 

246. JUSTICE DIVINE. 

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge, 
That no King can corrupt. 

247. virtue. 

§ Virtue finds few friends. 

248. 
Churchmen should nurse no slanders ; for their 
The way of their profession, is against it : [station. 
They are to care our sorrows ; not to sow them. 

249- OBEDIENCE. 

The hearts of Princes kiss obedience, 
So much they love it. 

250. MAGNANIMITY. 

§ Though perils did 
Abound as thick as thought could make them and 
Appear in forms more horrid, yet should Duty, 
As doth a rock against the chiding flood *, 
The approach of this wild river break, and stand 
Unshaken. 

251. words. 

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well ; 
And yet words are no deeds. 

252. ENVY. 

Of what base metal art thou moulded, envy ! 

253. OPPRESSION. 

Press not a falling man too far. 

* Ut Pelagi Rupes immota resistit : 
UtPelagi Kupes, magno veniente fragore, 
Que sese, multis circumlatrantibus undis, 
Mole lenet. iEN. IV. 

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30 SHAKESPERIAN [Hen. VIII. 

254. MUTABILITY OF LIFE. 

This is the state of man : — To-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms 
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : 
The third day eomes a frost, a killing frost, 
And-^-whenhe thinks, good easy man, full surely 
His greatness is a ripening — nips his root 
And then he falls. 

255. RELIANCE ON HUMAN SUPPORT. 

O. how wretched 
Is that poor man, that hangs on Princes' favours ! 
There is, betwixt that smile he would aspire to, 
That sweet aspect of Princes, and their ruin, 
More pangs and fears than wars or women have ^ 
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 
Never to hope again, 

256. CONSCIENCE. 

A still and quiet conscience is a peace 
Above all earthly dignities. 

257. HONOURS. 

Too much honour is a burthen 

Too heavy for a man that hopes for Heaven. 

258. FORTITUDE. 

A man may out of fortitude of Soul , 
Endure more miseries and greater far 
Than his weak-hearted enemies dare offer. 

259- VIRTUE FOR IT'S OWN SAKE. 

§ Do justice 
For Truth's sake and your conscience. 

260. AMBITION. 

Fling away ambition ; 
By that sin fell the Angels. How can man then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it. 



Hen. VIII.] APHORISMS. 31 

261. SELF-LOVE. 

Love thyself last. 

262. FORGIVENESS. 

Cherish those hearts that hate thee. 

263. HONESTY. 

Corruption wins not more than honesty. 

264. PLACABILITY. 

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. 

265. JUSTICE. 

Be just, and fear not*. 

266. 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 
Thy God's, and truth's; — then if thou fall'st, 
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. 

267. HONOURS. 

Coronets are stars ; 
And sometimes falling ones. 

268. REMEMBRANCE, 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. 

209. COMFORT. 

Comfort, that comes too late, 
Is like a pardon after execution. 

270. CONCEALMENT. 

Affairs, that walk at midnight, have in them 
\A wilder nature, than the business 
That seeks dispatch by day. 

271. FRIENDSHIP, 

A good man's truth and his integrity 
Is rooted in the heart of a just Friend. 

* The motto of the late Lifford, suggested by my Father, 



32 SHAKESPERIAN [Hen. VIII. 

272. VERDICT NOT ALWAYS JUST. 

Not always 
The justice and the truth of the question carries 
The due of the verdict with it. 

273. WITNESSES CORRUPT. 

Y/ith too much ease 
Corrupt minds can procure knaves as corrupt 
To swear against the best. 

2/4. ENVY. 

Men, that make 
Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment, 
Dare bite the best. 

275' ACCUSATION. 

X Be but a private man 
Many shall dare accuse you boldly. 

£j6 f CHURCHMEN. 

Love and meekness 
Become a churchman better than ambition. 

277. CHARITY. 
Win straying souls with modesty again ; 
Cast none away. 

273. AFFECTATION. 

§ Painted gloss discovers, 
To men that understand it, words and weakness. 

279. ADVERSITY INSULT NOT. 

'Tis cruelty to load a falling man. 

280. FLATTERY. 

Flattery is too thin and base 
To hide offence, 

281. MUTINY. 

Obedience is a slave 
Tp each incensed will, x * 



King John.] APHORISMS. 33 

KING JOHN. 

282. WAR, MIGHT BE EASILY PREVENTED. 

Wars might have been prevented, (Peace made 
With very easy arguments of love ; whole) 

Which once commenc'd, two mighty Nations must 
With fearful bloody issue arbitrate. 

283. JUDGMENT BY SUCCESS VICIOUS. 

W T ith those 
Who judge by merely the event of things 
Near or far off, well won is still well shot, 
And have is have, however men do catch. 

284. DECEIT-IT'S ARTS SHOULD BE KNOWN. 

Arts which men will not practise to deceive, 
Yet to avoid deceit 'tis meet to know, 

285. VIGILANCE. 

By how much unexpected, by so much 
We must awake endeavour for defence. 

286. 
The hare can pluck dead lions by the beard. 

287. eear. 

Who dares not stir by day, must walk by night. 

288. HONOURS NEW. 

New-made honour doth forget men's names. 

289. PARTIALITY VICIOUS. 

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth. 

290. WAR, JUST. 

§The peace of Heaven is their's that lift their swords 
Only in just and charitable war. 

291. war, UNJUST. 

We shall repent each drop of blood, 
That hot rash haste doth indirectly shed. 

292. COURAGE. 

Courage mounteth with occasion. 



34 SHAKESPERIAN [King John. 

293. conflict equal. [swered blows ; 
K Blood hath bought blood, and blows have an- 
Strength match'd with strength, and power con- 
fronted power. 

294. VIRTUE SUPREMELY AMIABLE. 

Zealous love should go in search of virtue. 

295. SELFISHNESS. 

4- Commodity, the bias of the World; 
The world which of itself, is poised well, 
Made to run even, upon even ground ; 
'Tis this advantage, this vile drawing bias, 
This sway of motion, this commodity, 
Makes Life take head from all indifterency, 
From all direction, purpose, course, intent. 

296. SELFISHNESS OF PRINCES. 

§ Kings break faith upon commodity. 

297. NEWS ILL. 

Harm in itself so heinous is, 
As it makes harmful all that speak of it. 
FEAR. 

298. SICKNESS—FEARFUL. 

Sickness is very capable of fears. 

299- OPPRESSION CREATES FEAR. 

Who have been long oppresst are full of fears, 

300. WOMAN NATURALLY FEARFUL. 

Woman is naturally born to fears, 

301. WIDOWHOOD SUBJECT TO FEAR. 

A widow's state is subject much to fears. 

302. COUNTERFEITS. 

Whate'er is counterfeit, being touched and tried 
Proves valueless. 

303. ADVERSITY SHOULD NOT MAKE ABJECT. 

|< Instruct thy sorrows to be proud. 



King John.] APHORISMS, 35 

304. OATH CRIMINAL. 

That which thou dost swear to do amiss 
Is yet amiss when it is truly done. 
And being not done, where doing tends to ill* 
The truth is then best done not doing it. 

305. OATHS THEIR FAITH RELIGIOUS. 

It is Religion that doth make vows kept. 

306. OATHS— THE USE OF THEM. 

Who swears, swears only not to be forsworn;— 
Else, what a mockery should it be to swear ! 

307. RESOLUTION A DUTY. 

A better conquest never can man make 
Than arm his constant and his nobler parts 
Against a giddy loose suggestion. 

308. 
f A mind well ^taid in all events can say 
Courage and comfort; — all shall yet go well. 

309. DEATH TERRIBLE TO PROSPERITY. 

Death is the hate and terror of prosperity. 

310. COMFORT. 

To the loss of others 
Men better comfort give than to their own. 

311. FRIENDS IN FUTURITY. 

We shall see and know our friends in Heaven. 

312. LIFE TEDIOUS WHEN MIS-EMPLOYED. 

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

313. CRISIS OF A DISEASE VIOLENT. 

Before the curing of a strong disease, 
Even in the instant of repair and health, 
The fit is strongest. 

314. EFFECT GREAT FROM LITTLE CAUSES. 

A little snow, tumbled about, 
Anon becomes a mountain, 



36 SHAKESPERIAN [King John. 

315. EVILS MOST FELT AT THE CLOSE. 

Evils that take leave, 
On their departure most of all show evil. 

316. 
When fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

317. TYRANNY AND WRONG FRUITFUL OF 

A sceptre, snatch' d with an unruly hand, [evil. 
Must be as boisterously maintain' d as gained. 
And he, that stands upon a slippery place, 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up, 

318. TYRANNY EVER INSECURE. 

He that steeps his safety in true blood, 
Shall find but bloody safety and untrue. 

319- 
Strong reasons make strong actions. 

320. NOVELTY IS POPULAR. 

The hearts of subjects 
Do kiss the lips of unacquainted change. 

321. COMFORTS NOT TO BE DESTROYED, 

Beings create for comfort to employ 
In undeserv'd extremes is doubly* evil. 

- 322. DOG — HIS RELUCTANCE TO FIGHT. 

A Dog that is compelled to fight 

Snaps at his master that doth tar him on ||. 

323. SUPEREROGATION. 

To guard a title that was rich before, 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 

* Waller, in his Speech before the Parliament, admirably applied 
thus the Scriptural Aphorism, " Thou shalt not seethe a Kid in it's 
Mother's Milk," which the great Lord Mansfield emphatically quoted 
on the perversion of Law. 

[| It appears th>s cruel depravity wa» frequent so far back in this 
country. 



King John.] APHORISMS, 37 

To smooth the ice, or add another hue 

Unto the rainbow, or with taper light 

To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, 

Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. 

32-i. TRUTH AN ENEMY TO DISGUISE, 

Disfiguring the' antique well noted face 

Of Honesty by an affected pomp 

Makes sound opinion sick; and Truth suspected 

For putting on so new a fashioned robe. 

325. CORRECTNESS TOO SCRUPULOUS. 

When workmen strive to do better than well, 
They do confound their skill in covetousness. 

326. FAULT AGGRAVATED EY BAD EXCUSE, 

Oftentimes excusing of a fault 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse ; 
As patches set upon a little breach 
Discredit more in hiding of the flaw 
Than did the flaw before it was so patched* 

327. PHYSIOGNOMY DISCOVERS CRIME. 

The image of a wicked heinous Fault 
Lives in the eye \ and oft the close aspect 
Betrays the mood of a much troubled breast. 

328. DEATH. 

We cannot hold Mortality's strong hand. 

329- He who commands a Nation 

Hath no commandment o'er the pulse of Life, 

330. CRUELTY INSECURE. 

There is no sure foundation set on blood ; 
No certain Life atchiev'd by others' Death, 

331. DISSENTIONS CIVIL. 

A State should have no subject enemies 
When adverse foreigners affright it's towns 
With dreadful pomp of strong Invasion, 

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38 SHAKESPERIAN [King John. 

332. PROGNOSTICS. 

A foul Sky rarely clears without a storm. 

333. CELERITY. 

The spirit of the Time should teach men speed. 

334. TYRANNY NOURISH! BY OBEDIENCE. 

It is the curse of Kings to be attended 

By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant, 

335. RAGE. 

Rage is blind. 

336. OPPORTUNITY OF ILL. 

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds 
Makes ill deeds done ! 

337. VIRTUE WILL NOT SERVE TYRANNY* 

f Virtue and Nobleness will say of Guilt 
X We will not line the thin bestained cloak 
, With our pure honours, nor attend the foot 
That leaves the print of blood where e'er it walks, 

338. DISTRESS SUPERSEDES COURTESY. 

In extremity [words. 

Men's Griefs and not their Manners prompt their 

339- IMPATIENCE— HOW PRIVILEGED. 

■f Impatience hath it's privilege : 
But rarely other privilege allow' d 
Than this, to hurt it's master, and none else. 

340. LIBERTY AND RIGHT. 

>£ A just man and a free, dares to defend 
His innocent life against an Emperor. 

341. MURTHER BETRAYS ITSELF. 

K Murther, as hating what itself hath done, 
Doth lay it open to urge on revenge. 

342. TEARS OFTEN DECEITFUL. 

X Trust not the cunning waters, of the eyes. 
For villainy is not without such rheum: 
And those long practised in it make it seem 



King John.] APHORISMS. 59 

Like rivers of remorse or innocence. 

343. REFORM. 

Times may be so sick 
That present Medicine must be minister'd, 
Or overthrow incurable ensues. 

344. CONSISTENCY. 

Be great in act as you have been in thought 

345. FORTITUDE DOUBLY NECESSARY, 

Let not the world see fear, and sad mistrust, 
Govern the motion of a kingly eye. 

346. COURAGE TRIUMPHS OVER PERIL S 

Threaten the threatener ; and outface the brow 
Of bragging horror. 

347. COURAGE GROWS BY EXAMPLE. 

§ Inferior eyes, 
That borrow their behaviours from the great. 
Grow great by their example, and put on 
The dauntless spirit of resolution. 

348. FORTITUDE. 

X Shew firmness and preventive confidence. 

349. LICENTIOUSNESS TO BE CURBED. 

Tame the spirit of wild War 
That, like a Lion foster' d up at hand, 
It may lie gently at the foot of Peace*, 
And be no further harmful than in shew. 

3,50. INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL. 

X A Nation is not to be proper ty'd 

To be a secondary at controul, 

Or instrument and useful serving tool, 

To any sovereign state throughout the world, 

351. INVASION. 

Never, upon the footing of our Land, 

* Exquisite allegoric Painting ! 

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40 SHAKESPERIAN [King John. 

Send fair play orders and make compromise, 
Insinuation, parley, and base truce 
To arms invasive. 

352. BABBLERS. 

X Ever hold time too precious to be spent 
With babblers. 

353. EXTREMES. 

Fierce extremes 
In their continuance will not feel themselves. 

354>. DEATH IT'S PROGRESS. 

Death having prey'd upon the outward parts 
Leaves them insensible. 

355. LIFE DEPARTING. 

Often when Life is lingering on it's close, 
The heart hath one fine string * to stay it by. 

356. SORROW TO BE MODERATED. 

Let us pay the time but needful woe, 

357. GRATITUDE — HER LANGUAGE. 

In a kind and tender soul 
Fullness of Gratitude would oft give thanks? 
And knows no way to do it but by tears. 

358* ENGLAND SAFE BY UNANIMITY. 

England never did nor ever shall 
Lie at the proud foot of a Conqueror, 
But when it first did help to wound itself. 

359. England's security. 

Nought shall make us rue, 
If England to itself do rest but true. 

RICHARD II. 

360. justice. Let 

The accuser, and the accused, freely speak, 

* A widow' d Mother, when in her last illness, said to Sir GeoTge v 
Baker, .pointing to her Child, " Ah, Sir, this is the tie that holds me.'* 



Rich. II.] APHORISMS, 4 

36l. 

What is spoken, 
The body shall make good upon this earth ; 
Or the divine Soul answer it in Heaven. 

36'2. CONTRAST. 
The fairer and more crystal is the sky, 
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 

363. MURTHER. 

Innocent blood, 
E'en like the blood of sacrificing Abel, 
Cries from the tongueless caverns of the earth* 
For justice and rough chastisement. 

S64f. MALICE CRUEL. 

Deep Malice makes too deep incision. 

36.5. PLACABILITY. 

Forget, forgive ; conclude, and be agreed. 

366. OBEDIENCE SHOULD BE DECISIVE, 

§ X When 
Obedience bids — wait not a second bidding. 

367- HONOUR. 
Our life Kings may command, but not our shame. 

368, DUTY NEARER THAN KINDRED. 

Nearness of blood 
Should nothing privilege, nor partialize 
The unstooping firmness of the upright Soul. 

369. FORTITUDE AGAINST FURY. 

Rage must be withstood ; 
Lions make Leopards tame. 

1 370. REPUTATION INESTIMABLE. 

The purest treasure mortal times afford 
Is — spotless Reputation ; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay, 

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42 SHAKESPERIAN [Rick. II. 

371. COURAGE AND LOYALTY. 

A jewel in a tea-times barr'd up chest 
Is a bold Spirit in a loyal breast. 

3/2. HONOUR. 
Our Honor is our Life ; both grow in one 1 
Take honor from us and our life is done. 

373. ENTREATY. 

Kt Those at entreaty commonly are ill 
Who were not born to sue but to command. 

374. HEAVEN SUBMISSION TO It's WILL. 

Put we our quarrel to the will of Heaven. 

375. PUNISHMENT LEGAL. 

Kt Where Law and Justice strike, 
Lament we may, but not avenge the dead. 

376. IMAGINATION — WHERE INEFFECTUAL. 

Who can hold a Fire in his hand 
By thinking on the frozen Caucasus ; 
Or bate the fang of stern December's snow 
By thinking of fantastic Summer's heat; 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite 
By bare imagination of a feast. 
The apprehension of a banisht good 
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. 

377. GRIEF — SILENT. 

Fell Sorrow's tooth does never rankle more 
Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore. 

378. DIVINE JUSTICE. 

Heaven is the Widow's Champion and defence. 

37S- UNDUE SUBMISSION. 

That which in mean men we entitle patience 
Is pale cold Cowardice in noble breasts. 
380. grief. 

Grief boundeth where it falls 3 



Rich. IT.] APHORISMS. 43 

Not with the empty hollowness, but weight*. 

381. 
Grief makes one hour ten. 

382, PLEASURE AND PAIN DIVIDE LIFE. 

Joy absent, Grief is present for that time. 

383. 
Sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done. 

384. TRUTH. / 

Truth hath a quiet breast. 

3S5. FALSE PLEASURE. 

Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. 

386. EXILE. 

All places that the eye of Heaven visits, 
Are to a wise man ports, and happy havens. 

387. power; human. 

X Kings may cut short our days with sullen sorrow, 
And pluck nights from us ; but not lend a morrow : 
They can help Time to furrow us with age ; 
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage : 
Their word is current with him for our Death, 
But dead, their Kingdom cannot buy our breath. 

388. NECESSITY. 

Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; 
There is no virtue like necessity. 

3S9. CONFIDENCE IN HEAVEN. 

Of Who look beyond this World 
Whate'er their soul holds dear may well believe 
To lie the way they go. 

390. TRIALS RELIEVED BY PATIENCE, 

Gnarling Sorrow hath less power to bite 
The man that mocks at it and sets it light ||. 

* That is, no Griefs evidently affected have a sympathetic influence 
by re-action upon others. The conceit is from a Ball contrasted to % 
Bladder. 

|| Levius fit Patientia 
Duicquid corrigere est Nefas. HOR, 



44 SHAKESPERIAN [$ki. II. 

391. DYI^G PERSONS ATTENDED TO. 

The tongues of dying men 
Enforce attention, like deep Harmony. 

392. WORDS OF SUCH PRECIOUS. 

Where words are scarce they 'are seldom spent in 

393. END HOW ENDEARED. [vain. 

More are men's Ends mark'd than their Lives 
The setting Sun and Music at the close [before 
(As the last taste of sweets) are sweetest, 

394. LICENTIOUS WRITINGS. 

There are found 
Lascivious meeters ; to whose venom* d sound 
The open ear of youth doth always listen. 

395. FASHION. 

Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, 
(So be it new, there's no respect how vile) 
That is not quickly buzz'd into the ear. 

396*. WILFULNESS. 

Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard, 
Then all too late comes counsel to be heard. 

m 397. 
Direct not him, whose way his-self will choose. 

398. PROFUSION. 
Light Vanity, insatiate Cormorant, 
Consuming means soon preys upon itself. 

3O9. EXTREMES. 

Violent Fires soon burn out themselves. 

400. 
Small showers last long; but sudden storms are 

401. misery. [short. 
Misery sometimes makes sport to mock itself. 

402. FLATTERY. 

Dying men rarely flatter those that live — 
t Too oft the living flatter those that die. 



Rich. II.] APHORISMS. 45 

403. IMPROVIDENCE. 

Those who think too late. 
See but the very wreck that they must suffer ; 
And find the danger then inevitable 
For suffering thus the causes of their wreck, 

404. 
? Tis rash to hear a fearful tempest sing, 
Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm : 
To see the wind sit sore upon our sails, 
And yet not furl them, but securely perish. 

405. IMPATIENCE. 

>£ Impatience is an Ague's privilege. . 

406\ LIFE THE HAPPY LOVE IT. 

They love to live that Love and Honor have. 

407. DEATH — THE UNHAPPY DESIRE IT, 

They love to die that Age and Sorrow have. 

408. DEATH. 

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe, 

409. PREMATURITY. 

The ripest fruit first falls. 

410. HOPE AND FORTITUDE. 

XfHope and Fortitude 
Gan even through the hollow eyes of Death 
Behold Life peering. 

411. FRIENDSHIP. 

Confidence 
Should beget confidence : and those with whom 
We share our thoughts should share their own 

412. [with us> 
Spoken in confidence words are as thoughts. 

413. MELANCHOLY HOSTILE TO LIFE, 

Ye who would live, 
O lay aside life-harming heaviness, 
And entertain a cheerful disposition* 



46 SHAKESPERIAN [Rich. IL 

414. AGE AND SICKNESS FRETFUL. 

X With little of resentment we impute 
Harsh words to wayward sickliness and age. 

415. AFFECTION PATIENT. 

X Tender Duty makes us suffer wrong. 

4l6\ HOPE NOT TO PROFIT BY EVIL, 

f Be it ever of bad courses understood, 
That their events can never fall out good. 

417- fear. 
Urge doubts to them that fear. 

418. GRIEF EVER MAGNIFIES. 

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows. 

419. SORROW DISTORTS APPEARANCES, 

Apprehensive Sorrow's eye 
As for things true weeps things imaginary, 
Dividing one entire to many objects ; 
Like perspectives which, wrily gazed upon, 
See nothing but confusion ; used aright 
Distinguish forms * :— Thus Care's disordered eye 
Finds multiplying shapes of Grief to wail, 
Which lookt on as they are, are nought but 

420. presentiment. [shadows. 

f Commonly, or ever, 
Presentiment of ill we may derive 
From some fore-father grief. 

421. ADVERSITY TRIES FRIENDSHIP. 

Whoever hath abus'd Prosperity, 

Soon comes the sick hour that his surfeit made : 

Then shall he try his friends that flatter' d him. 

422. HOPE — HOW SWEET. 

The Hope to joy is little less in joy 

* This curious double allusion to an optical experiment, not even 
now very familiar, shews the strength, comprehensiveness, and subtilty 
of the Poet's observation . The Anamorphosis Cylinder and Polymorphic 
Prism are both introduced. 



Rich. II.} APHORISMS. 47 

Than hope enjoy ? d. 

423. HOPE DECEITFUL. 

Hope is a flatterer, a parasite, 
A keeper-back of death. 

424. COMFORT — -HER TRUE ABODE. 

Comfort's in Heaven, and we are on the Earth, 

425. CONVERSATION SHORTENS THE WAY, 

Sweet Discourse 
Maketh the hard way sweet and delectable *. 

426. INATTENTION. 

That is not forgot 
That never was remembered. 

427. GRACE. 

Grace in a graceless mouth is but prophane, 

428. GOODNESS. 

K Goodness accounts itself in nought so happy 
As in a soul remembering the good. 

429- HUMILITY INTERIOR. 

G Shew Heaven the humbled heart, and not the 
430. sickness and age. [kneeH* 

Sickness and Age have privilege to be bold. 

431. EVILS INCURABLE, COMPARATIVELY 
DISREGARDED. 

Things past redress are past care. 

432. evil not to be done to produce good, 
To find out Right with Wrong — It may not be. 

433. SIGNS OF APPROACHING ANARCHY. 

At approach of lawless times 
Wise men look sad ; and ruffians dance and leap : 
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy ; 

* Cantantes licet usque, minus via ladder, eamus. VIRG. 

Comes jueundus in via pro vehicuio. 

!| Rather than— " I will have Mercy - t andngt Sacrifice :" is asimiia? 
phrase. 



49 SHAKESPERIAN [Rich. IL 

The other to enjoy by rage and war. 

434. EXILE. 

Bitter is the bread of Banishment. 

435. DAY AND NIGHT. 

When the searching eye of Heaven is hid 
Behind the Globe, and lights the lower world, 
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, 
In murthers and in outrage: but behold 
Then when from under this terrestrial ball 
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines* 
And darts his light through every guilty hole ; 
Then treasons, murthers, and detested sins 
Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves, 

436. LABOUR AND REST. 

Awhile to work ; and after, holiday. 

437- ALL JUST MEANS TO EE USED. 

The means that Heaven yields must be embraced, 
And not neglected :... else Heaven would, 
And we will not ; Heaven's offer we refuse, 
The proffer' d means of succour and redress, 

438. CARE. 
What loss is it to be rid of Care ? 

439- JUSTICE THE MEASURE OF GREATNESS, 

Strives any one to be as great as we ? 

Greater he cannot be unless more just*, 

f More true to Men, to Heaven, and his own Heart, 

440. DEATH. 
Death will have his day. 

441. 
Nothing can we call our own but Death ; 
And that small model of the barren earth, 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones* 

* So Agesilaus : in tue Poet's justly favourite Plutarch, 



Rick II.] APHORISMS. 49 

442. LOVE CHANGES INTO HATE. 

Sweet Love changing his property, 

Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate* 

443. ROYALTY. 

Within the hollow Crown, 
That rounds the mortal temples of a King, 
Keeps Death his Court : and there the Antic sits. 
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ; 
Allowing him a breath, a little scene 
To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks: 
Infusing him with self and vain conceit, 
As if this flesh, which walls about our life, 
Were brass impregnable. 

444. remedy; not complaint, 

f Good men and wise wail not their present woes? 
But presently prevent the cause to wail. 

445. FEAR INCREASES BANGER. 

To fear the Foe, since Fear oppresseth strength* 
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe. 

446. 
Fear, and be slain — no worse can come, to righto 
To fight and die is Death destroying Death * ; 
Where fearing dying pays Death servile breath, 

447- DISTRESS AGGRAVATED HOW. 

X He plays the torturer by small and small, 
Who lengthens out the worst that must be spoken* 

448. MORTALITY. 

Mock not flesh and blood 
With solemn reverence || . 

* Epamhiondas, Wolfe, Montgomery* Abercromby, Nelson, thought. 
and felt thus. And in the Sarpedon of Homer there is a similar^ spirit. 

|| Louis the XVIth, Frederick the Gieat of Prussia, and the Emperor 
Joseph, all, I think, forbade kneeling to them; 



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449. PROGNOSTICS. 

Men judge by the complexion of the sky 
The state and inclination of the day. 

450. FLATTERY THE WORST SLANDER. 

He does me double wrong, 
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue, 

451. GENTLENESS. 

Fight with gentle words. 

452. 
X To speak of Joy, when altogether wanting, 
Doth but remember us the more of sorrow ; 
Or if of Grief, being altogether had, 
It adds more sorrow to our want of joy. 

453. LAMENTATIONS AID NOT. 

Tears shew their love ; but want their remedies, 

454. CALAMITY QUICK. 

% Nimble Mischance is ever light of foot. 

455. GRIEF. 

Grief lies within : 
And the external manners of lament 
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, 
That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul, 

456. WICKEDNESS HAS NO FRIENDSHIP- 

The love of wicked friends converts to fear. 

457. PROVIDENCE UNIVERSAL. 

I Heaven hath a hand in all events. 

45S. AMBITION BOUNDLESS. 

Thoughts tending to Ambition, still do plot 
Unlikely wonders. 

459. SELF-COMPLACENCY. 

Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves* 

460. MUSIC 

How sour sweet Music is, 



Hen. IV.] APHORISMS. 51 

When Time is broke, and no proportion kept * : 
So is it in the Music of Men's Lives. 

46l. INSENSIBILITY TO MORAL HARMONY. 

X There are who have the daintiness of ear 
To hear time broke in a disorder' d string ; 
But for the concord of their state and time 
Have not an ear ||. 

462. TIME RETALIATES OX It's WASTERS. 

X Man wastethTitne, and then Time wasteth him. 

463. THOUGHT OUR MEASURE OP TIME. 

Our thoughts are minutes. 

464. PRIDE. 
Pride must have a fall. 

465. THOUGHTS SUPPRESST BY COMPULSION. 

What the Tongue dares not, that the Heart will say, 

466. VICE ABHORRED EY IT'S EMPLOYERS. 

They love not poison, that do poison need. 

467° PARDON WELL BECOMES A KING. 

No word like Pardon for Kings' mouths so meet. 

468. JUDGEMENT OR SENTENCE CAPITAL 

not rendered against the absent. 
Thieves are not judg'd but they are by to hear, 
Although apparent guilt be seen in them. 

HENRY IV. 

469. LABOUR SWEETENS LEISURE. 

If all the year were playing holidays, - 
To sport would be as tedious as to work. 

470. CONTRAST. 

yi Bright metal on a sullen ground 

* Verse numerosque modosque ediscere vita. HOR. 

I Ergo Fidicen hoc videbit in fidibus j vir sapiens non videbit in vita.. 

F 2 



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Will shew more goodly and attract more eyes 
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. 

4/1. COURAGE RISES WITH OCCASION. 

The blood more stirs 
To rouze a Lion, than to start a Hare. 

472. IMAGINATION MAGNIFIES EVILS. 

Imagination 
Prives us beyond the bounds of patience. 

473. HUMILITY. 

Humility 
Doth pluck allegiance from men's hearts *. 

474. SATIETY. 

The mouth that's surfeited with honey 
Doth loath the taste of sweets. 

475. FLATTERY TO EE DISDAINED, 

Defy the tongues of soothers. 

476. CAUTION NECESSARY, 

Needful it is to fear. 

477. PROGNOSTIC 

The Southern wind 
Doth by his hollow whistling on the leaves, 
Foretell a tempest, and a blustering day. 

478. JUSTICE HAS HEAVEN TO AID, 

God does defend us when our cause is just. 

479- SUSPICION VIGILANT. 

Suspicion is full of eyes. 

480. ; PRONE TO MISINTERPRET, 

Interpretation will misquote Our looks. 

481. CIRCUMSPECTION. 

Consider what you have to do. 

4S2. LIFE — NOT TO BE MISEMPLOYED. 

The time of Life is short : 
To spend that shortness basely, 'twere too long. 
* Compels tkcm to love it. 



Hen. IV.] APHORISMS. 53 

483. war. 

The Arms are fair * 
When the intent of bearing them is just. 

484. SUM OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DUTY, 

Let each man do his best || . 

485. RIVALRY. 

Two Stars keep not their motion in one sphere |||| . 
4S6\ DESPAIR. 

f To Despair 
Thought seems the slave of life, and life-time's 

487. discretion. [fooL 
The better part of Valour is — Discretion. 

488. RUMOUR. 

On Rumour's tongues 
Continual slanders ride. 
489. 

Rumour is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. 

490. COMFORT — FALSE. [wrongs. 

Smooth Comforts, false, are worse than real 

491. CONTENTION WHEN IRRITATED. 

Contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, bears down all before him. 

492. PROGNOSTIC PHYSIOGNOMICAL. 

Men's brows, like to a title-page, 
Foretell the nature of a tragic volume. 
493. 

The cheek 
Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand. 

* Justa Bella quibus necessaria. LIV : 

1! England expects every Man to do his Duty. NELSON. 

!l|| Till the Pallas of Olbers was discovered, and the Juno of Hardinge, 
after the Ceres ot Piazzi, this seemed as true in the Letter as in the 
Figure. But the orbits of two at least of these three Planets are found 
to intersect each-other ; which till then v.-as unknown, except of Comets. 

r3 



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494. SUSPICION EAGER TO ACCUSE. 

Suspicion hath a ready tongue. 

495. FEAR — HOW APPREHENSIVE. 

He that but fears the thing he would not know, 
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, 
That what he fear'd is chanc'd. 

496. SLANDER OF THE DEAD MOST HEINOUS. 

He doth sin, that doth bely the dead. 

497. ILL NEWS INFECTS THE BEARER. 

The bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office. 

498. ILLS ARE MEDICINAL. 

In poison there is physic. 

499- WISDOM AND HONOUR. 

Divorce not Wisdom from your Honour. 

500. GAIN IMPATIENCE FOR IT DARING. 

Gain proposed, 
-Clioaks the respect of likely peril fear'd. 

501. hope — doubtful in c o m m e n c e m e n t . 

A cause on foot 
Lives so in Hope, as in an early Spring 
We see the appearing buds. 

502. CIRCUMSPECTION. 

When we mean to build, 
We first survey the plot, then draw the model. 

503. POPULARITY UNCERTAIN. 

An habitation giddy and unsure 
Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 

504. TIME. 

We are Time's subjects. 

505. imagination — it's power in adding 

ideal Value. [worst. 

Past, and to come, seem best : things present, 



Hen. IV.] APHORISMS, 55 

506. WISDOM. 

Let Wisdom be your guide. 

50 . ROYALTY. 

, Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

508. MUTABILITY. 

The revolution of the times 
Make mountains level, and the continent 
(Weary of solid firmness) melt itself 
Iiuo the sea ! 
509. 

Chances mock, 
And changes fill the cup of alteration 
With divers liquors *. 

510. PROGNOSTIC. 

There is a History in all men's lives, 
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : 
The which observed, a man may prophecy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
As yet not come to life. 

511. RUMOUR. 

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, 
The numbers of the fear'd. 

512. SICKNESS HOW AGGRAVATED, 

Unseason'd hours 
Must, add to sickness. 

513. FAVORITISM. 

That Man, that sits within a Monarch's heart, 
And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, 
Would he abuse the countenance of the King, 
Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach, 
In shadow of such greatness. 

* The passage whence this is taken has been made a Motto to a 
Poem of madi original Genius and powerful Pathos — THE VISION 
OF SILVESTER. 



56 SHAKESPEKIAN [Hen. IF. 

514. AFFLICTION A GROUND OF HOPE. 

Sudden sorrow 
Serves oft to say ' Some good thing comes to- 

515. peace. [morrow/ 
A Peace is of the nature of a conquest ; 

For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
And neither party loser. 

516. LUXURIANCE. 

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. 

517- passion. 
When means and lavish manners meet together, 
O with what wings do hot affections fly 
Toward fronting peril. 

518. afflictions profitable. 
Turn past evils to advantage. 

519. FORTUNE. 

Fortune doth never come with both hands full : 
She either gives a stomach and no food — ■ 
Such are the poor, in health : — or else a feast 
And takes away the stomach— such the rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 

520. ROYALTY. 

O Majesty, 
When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 
Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 
That scalds with safety. 

. 521. AVARICE. 

How quickly Nature fails into revolt 

When gold becomes the object ! 

For this the foolish over-careful Fathers 

Have broke their sleep with thought, their brains 

Their bones with industry: [with care, 

For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 



M.forM.] APHORISMS. 57 

The canker'd heaps of strange atchieved gold : 
For this they have been thoughtful to invest 
Their Sons with arts, and martial exercises : — 
When, like the bee, culling from every flower 
The virtuous sweets ; 

They bring it to the hive ; and, like the bee, 
Are murther'd for their pains. 

522. AGE. 

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. 

MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 
VOL. II. 

523. POPULARITY. 

§The man who does affect 
Popular applause, and aves vehement, 
Is not of safe discretion. 

524. PROGNOSTIC MORAL. 

§f There is a kind of character in the life 
That to the observer doth the history 
Unfold. 

525. TALENTS NOT OUR OWN. 

Thyself and thy belongings 
Are not thine Own so proper, as to waste 
Thvself upon th^ Virtues, them on thee. 

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, 
Not light them for ourselves : for if our Virtues 
Did not go forth of as*, 'twere all alike 
As if we had them not. 

Spirits are not finely touch'd 
But to fine issues. 

* A Scriptural Phrase. 



58 SHAKESPERIAN [M.for M 

52S. 

Nature never lends 
'The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty Goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use *. 

529. KINGS — THE AWFUL EXTENT OI* 

THEIR POWERS. 

Kt Mortality and Mercy 
Live in the tongues of Princes : Mercy should 
Live ever in their hearts. 

530. PROPOSITION IDENTICAL. 

Grace is Grace, 
Despight of all controversy* 

531. AUTHORITY. 

The Demi-god, Authority, 
Makes us pay down for our offence by weight. 

532. excess. 

As Surfeit is the Father of much fast, 
So every scope by the immoderate use 
Turns to restraint. 
533. 

Our natures do pursue, 
Like rats that raven down their proper bane, 
A thirsty evil : and when we drink we die. 

534. POWER NEW IS GENERALLY SHARP. 

In change of power || the Body-politic is 
An horse whereon the Governor doth ride, 
Who newly in the seat, that it may know 
He can command, oft lets it feel the spur. 

* The Interest on the Principal. The allusion is Scriptural* 

H Res dura et Regni Novitas me talia cogunt 
Moliri. VIRG. 



M.for M.] APHORISMS, 59 

535. YOUTH PERSUASIVE, 

§f Youth hath a prone and speechless dialect, 
Such as moves men, 

536. LAWS, IF UNFIT TO BE EXECUTED, 

SHOULD NOT EXIST, 

Decrees 
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead, 

537- PERMISSION OF THE EVIL WE COULD 
PREVENT IS A VIRTUAL COMMAND, 

We bid ill be done, 
When evil deeds have their permissive pass, 
Unpunisht and uncensur'd. - - - 

538. POWER CHANGES PURPOSE. 

Oft we see 
Powers changing purpose what our seemers be* 

539. BLUSHES INDICATIONS OF PURITY. 

Blushes, brief roses of the cheeks, proclaim 
A virgin purity. 

540. authority weakened by Ostentation. 

In time the rod 
Becomes more mock'd than fear'd. 

541. FEAR. 

Our doubts are traitors; 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. 

542. WOMEN THEIR POWER. 

When Maidens sue, 
Men give like Gods ; but when they weep and 
All their petitions are as truly their's, [kneei ? 
As they themselves should owe them. 

543. LAWS SHOULD EITHER BE EXECUTED 

OR REPEALED. 

We must not make a scare-crow of the Law, 



60 SHAKESPERIAN [M.forM. ^ 

Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, 

And let it keep one shape, till Custom make it 

Their perch, and not their terror. 

544. MODERATION IN PUNISHMENT. 

Let us be keen and rather cut a little, 
Than fall and bruise to death. 

545. TEMPTATION NONE IN ITSELF IR- 

PvESISTIBLE. 

'Tis one thing to be tempted, 
Another thing to fall. 

546\ GUILT MUST NOT EXEMPT ITSELF 
BECAUSE OTHERS ARE GUILTY, 

The Jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try. 

547. 

What's open made to Justice, 

That Justice seizes, 

548. OBSERVATION HUMAN ALWAYS 

IMPERFECT. 

The jewel that we find, we stoop, and take it, 
Because we see it ; but what we do not see 
We tread upon, and never think of it. 

549. LIFE HUMAN INEQUALITIES OF IT, 

Some rise by Sin, and some by Virtue fall : 
Some run through brakes of justice, answer none, 
And some condemned for a fault alone. 

550. JUSTICE RIGOROUS. 

After Execution, Judgement hath 
Repented o'er his doom *. 

* Did not Shakespeare allude to the Cases of Mary of Scotland, where 
Elizabeth wisht it to be thought that she felt thus ; and of Essex, where 
*he certainly did feel thus ? 



M. for it/.] APHORISMS. 6l 

551. MERCY. 

No Ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Not the King's crown, nor the deputed sword, 
The Marshal's truncheon, nor the Judge's robe 
Become them with one half so good a grace 
As Mercy does. 

552. MERCY DIVIDE. 

All the Souls that are were forfeit once, 

And he that might the 'vantage best have taken, 

Found out the remedy. 

553. How should we be. 

If he which is the top of judgment should 
But judge us as we are. O think on that, 
And mercy then will breathe within our lips, 
Like men new-made. 

554. HEAVEN THE VENERATION WE OWE 

TO IT. 

Shall we serve Heaven 
With less respect than we do minister 
To our gross selves ? 

555. MERCY AND JUSTICE. 

f Judges shew pity most when they shew justice : 
For then they pity those they do not know, 
Whom a dismissed offence would after gall*. 

556. SMALL OFFENCES SHOULD BE CHECKT. 

f© When crimes are small and punishments are 
Mercy is not itself that oft looks so ; [light, 

And Pardon oft the nurse of second woe. 
557. MERCY. 

It is excellent 
To have a Giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. 

* This is most true were Punishments less extreme. 



02 SHAKESPEARIAN [M.for M, 

558. 

Could great men thunder 
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet i 
For every pelting petty officer 
Would use his Heaven for thunder. 

559. 

Merciful Heaven ! 
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt 
Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, 
Than the soft myrtle ! — O, but Man, proud Man? 
(Drest in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he's most assured, 
His glassy essence) — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, 
As make the Angels weep. 

560, PER.SONS OF RANK APT TO FANCY EVERY 
THING ALLOWABLE TO THEM. 

'Great men may jest with Saints. 'Tis wit in them, 
r But in the rest foul profanation. 

56l. POWER PRONE TO PUNISH & OFFEND. 

Authority, although it err like others, 
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, 
That skins the vice o' the top. 

552. SELF-EXAMINATION SHOULD PRE- 
CEDE CENSURE. 

f Go to your bosom, 

JCnock there; and ask your Heart, what it hath 
That's like a Brother's fault. [done 

563. VIRTUE THE SOLE GOOD. 

Ail goods external may be rich or poor, 
As Fancy values — 'tis not so with Virtue. 

564. TEMPTATION. 

The Tempter or the tempted, who sins most ? 



31. for J/.] APHORISMS, OJ 

565. MODESTY. 

§ Modesty does more betray the seme 
Than woman's lightness. 

566. MIND, AND IT'S ASSOCIATIONS. 

t Circumstances and occasion 
Are as the Mind and will — thus may our hearts 

By good be wrought to evil : And too oft 
By lying with the Violet in the Sun, 
Do as the carrion doth, not as the flower ? 
Corrupt by virtuous Season. 

567. INCONTINENCE. 

Having waste ground enough. 
Shall we desire to raze the Sanctuary 
And pitch our evils there ? 

068. TEMPTATION SPECIOUS, 

Most dangerous 
Is that Temptation which does goad us en 
To Sin in loving Virtue. 

569. HYPOCRISY. 

§K Heaven oft is in the mouth, 

And in the heart a strong and growing evil. 

570. EXAMPLE ILL. 

Thieves for their robbery have authority, 
When Judges steal theirselves. 

571. hypocrisy. 

O, cunning enemy, that, to catch a Saint, 
With Saints dost bait thy hook ! 

57%- NO REPENTANCE without A MEN P "HE IT?, 

In sorrow for those crimes which we continue, 
Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not Heaven. 

573. THE WORLD YIELDS TO PRETENCES, 

Let's write good Angel on the Devil's horn, 
; Tis not the Devil's crest. 
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64 SHAKESPERIAN [M.forM. 

57&. AUTHORITY. 

O place ! O form ! 
How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, 
Wrench awe from fools, and tye the wiser souls 
To thy false seeming ! 

575. HUMILITY. 

G t True Goodness in a mortal breast will say — - 
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, 
But graciously to know I am no better *. 

576. HUMILITY AFFECTED. 

fl" Craftiness wishes to appear more bright, 
When it doth tax itself. 

577. pardon. 

An ignominious ransom, and free pardon 
Are of two houses : lawful Mercy sure 
Is nothing kin to foul Redemption. 

578. SIMULATION. 

fl" Though it should never, yet it oft falls out 

To have what we would have, we speak not what 

579. judgment capricious, [we mean. 

O perilous mouths, 
That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, 
Either of Condemnation or Approof ! 
Bidding the Law make court" sy to their will ; 
Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, 
To follow as it draws ! 

580. VIRTUE ABOVE ALL. 

X Virtue and female Honor will say thus- 
More than our Brother is our Chastity. 

581. HOPE. 

The miserable have no other Medicine, 
But only Hope ||. 

* There is none Good but one : that is, GOD. 
II The last Good left in Pandora's Box. 



M.for M.] APHORISMS. 65 

582. women. 

Women are frail 
As are the glasses where they view themselves. 

583. EDUCATION. 

©fin Childhood, a good thing too often read 
Grows fear'd and tedious. 

584. death — the true is loss o/" goodness. 
Better to die at once than die for ever. 

585. IMPERFECTION, HUMAN. 

Men, at the best, are made to be no stronger 
Than faults may shake their frame. 

586. HOPE WITH FORTITUDE. 

Have hope to live; bat be prepar'd to die. 

587. death. 

Be still prepar'd for Death : and Death or Life 
Shall thereby be the sweeter*. 

588. LIFE HUMAN. 

Reason thus with Life — 

A breath thou art, ►' 

Servile to ail the skiey influences 

That do this habitation, where thou keep'st, 

Hourly afflict. — Thou art not thyself, 

For thou exist ? st on many a thousand grains 

That issue out of dust ; Happy thou art not : 

For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get ; 

And what thou hast forget'st. Thou art not cer- 

For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, [tain : 

Friend hast thou none : 

For thine own bowels which do call thee Sire 

Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, [rich* 

For ending thee no sooner. When thou art old and 

£ Omnem crede Diem tibi diluxisse supremum : 
Grata superveniet quce non sperabitur Hora, HOB, 

G 3 



66 SHAKESPERIAN [M.for M. 

Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, 
To make thy riches pleasant. Thus in this 

Life 
Lye many thousand deaths : yet Death we fear, 
That makes these odds all even. 

589. LIBERTY VIRTUE ALONE IS FREE. 

yi Vice is imprisonment 

(Though all the world's vastidity thou had'st) 

To a determin'd scope. 

590. PRISONS — OUGHT NOT TO BE SHUT 

FROM CHARITABLE VISITATION, 

O When Charity visits afflicted Spirits 
That are in Prison, 'tis a Common Right 
To let her see them. 

591. PASSION. 

© When Passion is the Master of the Heart, 
It we would pray and think, we think and pi ay 
To several subjects. 

592. 
In Fear, or the excess of any Passion, 
The blood impetuous musters to the heart: 
Making both it unable for itself, 
And dispossessing all the other parts 
Of necessary fitness. 

593. HEAVEN SEETH NOT AS MAN SEETH, 

Much is set down in Heaven but not on Earth ; 
f And much on Earth set down, but not in Heaven, 

5g4. WISHES— GOOD. 

Good wishes deserve welcome. 

595- LIFE WHAT IS TRULY. 

Who basely sue to live seek but to die : 
Who virtuously seek Death find Life, 



M.for Iff.] APHORISMS. 67 

596. 
Mightest thou be safe unworthily, — beware, 
Lest thou a feverish life should entertain, 
And six or seven winters more respect 
Than a perpetual Honor. Dare to die; 
Be thou too noble to conserve a life 
By base appliances. 

597. 
Fearful is Death ; but shamed Life is hateful. 

598. IMPUNITY OF REPEATED CRIME IS 
XOT MERCY. 

Where Crime's not accidental but a trade, 
Mercy to such would prove itself a bawd. 

599- PARDON OX CORRUPT MOTIVES. 

"When Vice makes Mercy, Mercy's so extended, 
That for the fault's love is the offender friended. 

600. GOOD X ESS IS BEAUTY. 

If Goodness be the soul of your complexion, 
It shall preserve the body ever fair. 

601. HYPOCRISY MORE SHEW Y THAN VIRTUS* 

In this world, Craft, being richer than Inno- 
cence, often stands for the facing. 

602. DEATH. 

The sense of Death is most in apprehension; 
And the poor Beetle, that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a Giant dies. 

603. VIRTUE COURAGEOUS. 

Virtue is bold ; and Goodness never fearful. 

604. G A I X DISH N RABLETIIE WORST LO SS, 

Would those who profit by corruption think 
What 'tis to cram a maw or cloath a back, 
Or heap up sordid wealth from filthy vice; 



ffl SH AKESPERIAN [M.for M. 

Could they believe their living is a life ! 

605. VICE SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. 

To whom the Devil has given proofs for Sin, 
They will prove his. 

606. INSTRUCTION SHOULD GO HAND IN 

HAND WITH CORRECTION. 

G + Correction and Instruction must both work 
Ere Ignorance and settled Vice will profit. 

607. WISDOM AND CANDOUR. 

G Love of the good talks with better knowledge 
than to speak lightly, and knowledge with more 
affection than to speak harshly, of them. 

608. RASH SPEAKING. 

Those who know not what they speak seldom 
know what they do. 

609. HYPOCRISY, 

That we were all, as some would seem to be, 
Free from our faults, as from faults seeming free ! 

610. SLANDER. 

No Might nor Greatness in mortality 

Can Censure 'scape : back-wounding Calumny 

The whitest Virtue strikes. 

611. TRUTH WANT OF IT DESTRUCTIVE. 

There is scarce Truth enough alive in the world 
to make Societies secure. 

612. NEWS. 

^ No News is older than that which is every 
day's news. 

013. SELF-KNOWLEDGE MOST NECESSARY, 

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most 
to know themselves *, 

* De Coelo descendit, TyooBl (TSavjoV* J uv > 



M.forM.] APHORISMS. 69 

614. EEXEVOLEXCE. 

Kt The benevolent more rejoice to see another 
merry, than are merry at any thing which pro- 
fesses to make them rejoice. 

615. RIGOUR. 

Rigour to others is Censure on ourselves. 

616. PURITY JUDICIAL. 

He who the sword of Heaven will bear 
Should be as holy as severe ; 
Pattern in himself to know 
Grace to stand -t-, Virtue to go : 
More nor less to others paying 
Than by self-offences weighing. 
Shame to him whose cruel striking 
Kills for faults of his own liking. 

617. HYPOCRISY. 

O ! what may Man within him hide, 
Though Angel on the outward side : 
How may likeness made in crimes, 
Making practice on the times, 
Draw with idle spider's strings 
Most pond'rous and substantial things ! 

618. MUSIC. 

Music often hath a charm 
To make bad good. 

619. VIRTUE IS CANDID AND MERCIFUL. 

Whoso is just 
He doth with holy abstinence subdue 
That in himself which he doth spur himself 
To qualify in others. 

620. STATION ADDS TO THE INFECTIOUS- 

NESS OF GUILT. 

Offence hath pestilent celerity 
When it is born in high authority. 



70 SHAKESPERIAN [M.for M. 

621. DEATH. 

Death's a great disguiser. 

622. DEATH STUPID INDIFFERENCE CON- 
CERNING IT. 

A man insensible of Mortality is desperately 

623. advice. [mortal. 
Who most wants Advice will hear none. 

624. physiognomy. 

X Honesty and Constancy are written in the 
brow : the wise and the benevolent can read them 
there, 

625. power obnoxious to censure. 
O Place and Greatness ! Millions of false eyes 
Are stuck upon thee ! Volumes of report 

Run with their false and most contrarious quests 
Upon thy doings ! thousand 'scapes of wit 
Make thee the father of their idle dream, 
And rack thee in their fancies ! 

626. difficulties. _ 

All difficulties are easy when they are known* 

627. ACCIDENTS THERE ARE NONE. 

What we call Accident 'tis Heaven provides. 

628. HEAVEN KINDLY CONCEALS THE 

FUTURE. 

K We often are kept ignorant of our Good, 
To make us heavenly comforts of despair 
When it is least expected. 

629. VICE EVER DISCONTENTED WHEN 

HABITUAL. 

When once our grace we have forgot, 

Nothing goes right ; we would and we would not. 

630. ADVERSITY IS MEDICINAL. 

K In the events of Life there is a Physic 
That's bitter to sweet end. 



M.forM.) APHORISMS, 71 

631. FAME DUE TO VIRTUE. 

When Virtue serves the Public Weal, 'tis wrong. 
To lock Desert in the ward of covert bosom, 
When it deserves with characters of brass 
A forted residence "gainst the tooth of Time, 
And razure of Oblivion. 

632. POLITENESS NONE TRUE WITHOUT 

SINCERITY. 

Then only shews of kindness have their worthy 
When outward courtesies truly declare 
The Heart that keeps within.^ 

633. TRUTH IMMUTABLE. 

Truth is Truth to the end of reckoning, 

634. DIFFICULTIES OFTEN EXAGGERATED* 

Make not impossible 
That which but seems unlike, 

635. HYPOCRISY. 

>£ 'Tis not impossible 
But one the wickedest caitiff on the ground 
Might seem shy, grave, and just and absolute, 

636. DERANGEMENT, 

yi Madness will have a striking frame of sense ; 
And true Dependency of thing on thing 
f Save one particular Point. 

60/. reason not to be abandoned on account 
of apparent Incongruities. 
Do not banish Pteason 
For inequality : but let Reason serve 
To make the truth appear, where it seems hid. 

638. TIME. 
Time will unfold the evils now wrapt up. 

609, TRUTH IS WISDOM AND VIRTUE. 

K Sense lives in Truth, and Truth in Virtue, 



72 SHAKESPERIAN [Wint. Tale. 

640. fear EXCEssixE—theworst of Torments. 
That Life is better life, past fearing Death, 
Than that which lives to fear. 

641. RECIPROCITY. 

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure. 

642. SAYING POPULAR. 

They say 
Best men are moulded out of faults, and oft 
Become much better for being a little bad. 

643. THOUGHTS WITHOUT OVERT ACT. 

Thoughts answer to the will of Heaven; not 

Earth: 
Intents but merely thoughts ; unless some Act 
Tend to fulfil their purpose. 

THE WINTER'S TALE. 

644. NEGLECT. 

One good deed dying tongueless 
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. 

645. honor the temporary Recompence of 

VIRTUE. 

Our Praises are our Wages*. 

646. KINDNESS IT ? S EFFICACY. 

You may nde a generous Horse 
With one soft word a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur he heat an Acre. 

047. friendship — xvhat is called >so may 

mean otherwise. 
To mingle Friendship far is mingling floods ||. 

648. AFFECTION. 

Affection doth make possible 
Things not so held. 

* The cheap Defence of Nations. BURKE. 
H Inuat Amicitiae nomine tectus Amor. OV. 



Wint. Talc] APHORISMS. 73 

649. affections not felt are disbelieved or 

despised. 
How sometimes Nature will betray it's folly, 
It's tenderness : and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms * ! 

650. WOMEN, 

A Lady's verily is 
As potent as a Lord's. 

651. FRAILTY HUMAN. 

©t Where is that 3Ian 
Who ne'er is negligent; foolish, and fearful; 
In every one of these no man is free, 
But that his negligence, his folly, fear, 
Among the infinite doings of the world, 
Sometime puts forth. 

652. TEMPORIZING. 

A Temporizer can, 
With the same eye, at once, see Good and Evil, 

Inclining to them both, 

653. LEARNING — NOBILITY, 

Learning no less adorns Gentility 

Than Parents noble Names in whose succession 

Gentility is held. 

054:. BONO R — in gen uo us . 

Honor will be frank 
When it is charg'd in Honor, and by those 
Whom it thinks honorable. 

655. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

To true discernment 
The Heart is seen in the Face. 



* Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments she^s, agreeably to im.:v- 
4ides, that sentiments, v.-hen above the tone of ethers, reach not theiJ 
sympathy, 

H 



74 SIIAKESPKRIAN [Whit. Tak* 

656. CALUMNY. 

Calumny will scar 
Virtue itself. 

6*57. GRIEF SILENT. 

There is a Grief which burns 
Worse than tears drown. 

608. suffering — w hen to be lamented. 
In reason it befits us to lament 
Suffering for Guilt: not suffering undeserved*. 

. 659, JUSTICE NOT RASH. 

Be certain what you do : lest that your Justice 
Prove Violence. 

66'0. TRUTH. 
Truth comes with words medicinal as true. 

661. BIRDS OF PREY AND WILD BEASTS 

less cruel than Man depraved. 
Xt Some powerful Spirit instructs the Kites and 

Ravens 
To cherish the forsaken — Wolves and Bears, 
Casting their savageness aside, have done 
The Offices of Pity. 

662. ART SUSPECTED. 

Art is suspicious : oft so much is us'd 
To make a stain no stain, or that which is 
Indeed no stain a stain, as passes colouring. 

660. SLANDER. 

_ The sting of Slander 

Is sharper than the Sword. 

664. PASSION. 
The mind by Passion driven from it's firm hold 
Becomes a feather to each wind that blows. 

* Here Shakespeare probably had his justly favorite Plutarch in hii 
Mind: in his Phocion, and again in his iEgis; 



WinUTale.] APHORISMS. 75 

665. OATHS. 

Oaths without circumstance of strong support 
Should little weigh against that worth and credit 
That's seal'd in approbation. 

666, APPEARANCES DECEITFUL. 

The Hood makes not the Monk : a Man may 
be honest in nothing but his cloaths. 

66V. SILENCE ELOQUENT. 

The Silence often of pure Innocence 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 

66S. providence our great and ultimate. 
Consolation. 

If Powers divine 
Behold our human actions (as they do) 
Then Innocence shall make 
False Accusation blush, and Tyranny 
Tremble at Patience. 

669. impudence of vice. 
It has been rarely heard 

That any of the bolder Vices wanted 
Less Impudence to gainsay what they did 
Than to perform it first. 

670. t Past all Truth 
Is past all Shame. 

671. conviction should be on plain proof, 
J To be condemn'd 

Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else, 
Is Tyranny, not Law. 

672. FORGET AND FORGIVE. 

That omciousness 
Censure should punish, or the Heart itself 
Will punish, wrrch reminds the sufferer 
Of what should be forgotten. 
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76 SHAKESPERIAN [Wint. Tale. 

675. SORROW AND ANXIETY not to be 

uselessly perpetuated. 
What's gone, and what's past help, 
Should be past Grief. 

674?. PITY SHARPENS REMORSE. 

A true Repentance bears the Truth much better 
Of Censure, than it can officious Pity. 

675. affliction how aggravated by guilt. 
Sense of deser/d Affliction ill endures 
Pity or Consolation : both appear 
But as disguis'd Reproof. 

676. severe — weeps not, 

Weep we cannot 
When the Heart bleeds. 

677. dreams. 
Dreams are toys. 

67S. cruelty not natural. 

Beasts are not cruel 
Unless when urg'd by hunger. 

679- time. 
Time pleases some, tries all. 

680. 
Time makes and unfolds error. 

681. 
■ — Time will make stale 

False glitter of the present. 

6S2. COURTS. 
If you would know whether Virtues or Vices 
keep a Man farthest from a Court, go to Court 
and learn. 

683. virtue rarely very familiar with c6urts\ 
Virtue seldom stays long enough in a Court to 
be whipt out of it. 



Wint. Tale.] APHORISMS. 77 

6S4. CHILDREN. 

§ Parents are no less unhappy, their Issue not 
being gracious, than they are in losing them, 
when they have approved their virtues. 

685. NATURE THE BASIS OF TRUE ART. 

Nature is made better by no mean 
But Nature makes that mean. 

686. 
What adds to Nature, is an Art 
That Nature makes. 

68/. prais E — suspicious. 
Where Praises are too large, Wisdom may fear, 

688. suspicious even in love. 

. O Where Love is bold and lavish in it's praise ; 
Virtue and female Modesty may fear 
It woos but the false way. 

689- CONSTANCY. 

Turtles pair 
That never mean to part. 

690. TASTE, ELEGANCE, and GENIUS dignify 

whatever Situation. 
What Taste, and Elegance, and Genius does, 
Still savours something greater than it's place, 
However low or high. 

691. WITNESSES. 

X There may be witnesses more than a Pedlar's 
Pack will hold, and yet no Truth. 

692. tales — none too extravagant to zvanf 

Attestation. 
O There are few tales so idle that can not be 
voucht by abundance of witnesses : and some 
seemingly grave ones. 

h 3 



7S SHAKESPERIAN [TFint. Tale, 

69S. goodness ready to think veil of others. 
>£ The Good by pattern of their own thoughts 
The purity of others. [judge 

694. FATHER. 

A Father 
Is at the Nuptial of his Son a Guest 
That best becomes the table. [compel* 

695. marriage — -Parents to advise, not to 

Reason, the Child 
Should chu.se in Marriage : but good reason still 
The Father, though no force, should hold some 
In such a business. [counsel 

696. resolution — strengthened by v 10 lence. 
The resolute, where Force would intervene, 
Disdain compulsion : what they were, they are; 
More straining on for plucking back. 

697- EQUALITY. 

The self-same Sun, that shines upon a Court, 
Hides pot his visage from a Cottage ; but 
Looks upon all alike. 
6 9 S . J u s t 1 c e w ill not comprom ise with 1 n i q u 1 t y 8 
Rather than aught should fail 
By violation of his faith, the J.ust* 
Would see the sides of the Earth crushing toge- 
699 '• oath — a just inviolable. [ther. 

]j Not 
For all the Sun sees, or the close Earth wombs, 
Or the profound Sea hides in unknown fathoms, 
Break thou thy Oath. 

* Si fractus ellabatur Orbis 

Impavidum. ferient Ruinae. HOR. 

fl Phalaris licet imperet ut sis 

Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuna tauro 

Summum crede nefas animam praeferre Pudori 

Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas. JUVEN. 



WinL Talc] APHORISMS, 79 

700. virtue yields not to convenience. 

The Good will say 
When tempted by advantage, no : but rather 
Than swerve from Duty, let myself and Fortune 
Tug, for the time to come. 

701. ADVICE. 

Spirits should be or patient of Advice 

Or stronger than to need it : And the strongest 

Sometime will want Advice. 

7 02 . B e N e v o l e n c e is spontaneous in Good Hea rts. 

O From the Good good Deeds 
As gladly are returned as thought upon. 

703. principle — no confidence where it is 

wanted. 
K In what we wildly do we are at mercy 
Of unthought accident: — thus we profess 
To make ourselves the slaves of chance, and flies* 
To every wind that blows. 

704. rashness — Forerunner of evil. . 
yi The frowardness of Rashness is no better 
Than a wild dedication of ourselves 

To unpath'd waters, undreamt shores ; — most 
To miseries enough : no hope to help us, [certain 
But as we shake off one to take another. 

705. genius. 

Xt Of Genius be not rash to say, 'tis pity 
It wants Instruction : — 'tis a natural Master 
To those that teach. 

706. PRUDENCE. 
Prudence will omit 

Nothing which honestly may give her aid. 
707. talents — their worth as their employ. 
f An open ear, a quick eye, a nimble hand, a 

• As to a jack, or mill. 



SO SHAKESPERIAN [Wint. Tale, 

bold spirit, and a commanding foresight, make 
the Villain or the Hero as is the Heart and Cause 
which direct them. 

708. CONNIVANCE AT CRIME. 

To conceal the Knavery of others is want of 
Courage or of Honesty in ourselves. 

709. CORRUPTION". 

Though Authority be a stubborn bear, he is 
often led by the nose with gold. 

710. REMORSE. 

Those who remember 
The Virtue they have injur'd, must remember 
The blemish of that Injury : and with it 
The wrong they did themselves, 

711. amendment true, should reconcile m 

to ourselves. 
When we have cause to think 
By true amendment Heaven forgets our evil, 
Let us forgive ourselves. 

712. tim e — t he present prefers itself. 
The present Time is prone to boast itself 
Above a better gone. 

713. GRIEF. 

O f The Dead whom we regret with true affection, 
When talk'd of die to us again : ''till Time 
Soften regret to kindly veneration. 

714. affection — true — in dependen t of 

Circumstances. 
Though Fortune, visible an enemy, 
Should chase a virtuous Pair, no jot of power 
Hath she to change their loves. 

715. a o e should reinember youth. 

Ye who are old 
Remember Youth with thought of like Affection. 



Wint. Tale.] APHORISMS. Si 

716. AGE. 

Age says, when candidly it looks on Youth, 
By the remembrance of our days foregone, 
Such were our faults — O then we thought them 

717. should remember itself . £none ! 

An aged eye may have too much of Youth in't. 

718. joy or sorrow in extreme have like 

SYMPTOMS. 

Emotions may be so strong that the wisest 
beholder can not say if their import be Joy or 
Sorrow : but that the extremity of one it must 
needs be. 

719. 
Extreme Joy hides itself in Tears, 

720. EVIDENCE. 

© One of the greatest pledges of Truth is an 
unity of result from independent proofs. 

721. character wholly lost discredits the 

best Actions. 
Some are so lost to estimation, that a real and 
important merit does not relish among their 
discredits. 

722. GENTLEMEX, 

Those should be gentle who are Gentlemen*. 

723. GREATNESS— -false. 

False Greatness is affected and fantastical. 
724. 

He is but a counterfeit Gentleman who wili 
swear or say falsely for his Friend. 

72.5. SYMPATHY. 

Such is the magic power of Sympathy, 
And such the virtue of repentant tears, 

f The value of the Sentiment is an anology for the Pun. 



82 SHAKESPERIAN [JFint. Tale. 

Though not in all afflictions still in most, 
That who caus'd Grief to others hath the power 
To take off so much grief from them as he 
Will piece up in himself. 

726*. life — the Lore of it. 
1 Comfort and Hopes are seldom so much 
worn out as to extinguish the love of Life: they 
who went on crutches ere a Child is born, still 
desire to live to see him a Man. 

727. YOUTH. 

Youth thinks there is no more behind 
But such a day to-morrow as to-day. 

728. childhood — it's Innocence. 
Uncorrupted Childhood knows not 

The doctrine of ill-doing : — no ; nor dreams 
That any do. 

729. woma n — invincible but to kindness. 
O No force subdues a Woman's mind but kind- 

730. praise— just is music [ness. 

It is Music 
To hear good Deeds. 

731. CONSTANCY. 

Affliction may subdue the Cheek, 
But not take in the Mind, 

732. happiness progressive. 
One Joy crowns another. 

733. affliction — palatable to the wise* 
Some Afflictions have a taste as sweet 

As any cordial Comfort. 

734. Constancy of. 

There are who, like true Turtles, 

A Mate that's never to be found again 
Lament, 'till lost themselves. 



{Air* mil that APHORISMS. 83 

ends Well.] 

735. widow. 

O There are few better proofs of a Widow's 
affection to her Husband, than that she bears to 
her Son by him. 

736. REGRET OF THE PAST. 

That, had, how sad a passage it is. 

737. GRIEF. 

K Great external indications of Grief argue 
rather an affected than a real sorrow. 



ALUS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. 

738. 
We persecute Time with Hope. 

739' qualities good and plausible render 
more dangerous a bad heart. 
Where an andean Mind carries virtuous* qua- 
lities, there commendations go with pity ; they 
are virtues and traitors too. 

740. SIMPLICITY'. 

Simplicity recommends every other Excellence. 

741. modesty — Virgin . 

Tears are the best brine a Maiden can season 
her praise in. 

742 . grief saddens the couxtexance, 
The tyranny of Sorrows takes all livelihood 

from the cheek. 

743. Moderation in. 

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead ; 
excessive grief the enemy to the living. 

* Virtuous here in the antient sense : pleasing and excellent in them- 
selves, though abused. Such a plausible character is like what has 
been observed by Lord Bacon of the Philosophy of Moses concerning the 
Leprosy, 



84 SHAKES^ERIAN {Airs mil that 

ends IVelL] 
744. SOCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

Love all ; trust but a few ; do wrong to none. 
745. 

Be able for thy Enemy 
Rather in power, than use ; and keep thy Friend 
Under thy own life's key. 
. 746. 

Be checkt for Silence ; 
But never taxt for speech. 

747. AFFECTION AND DUTY fi Hal. 

© A Child is interested in Affection, Honor? 
and Principle, to maintain in their words and ac- 
tions the just credit of the Parent. 

748. FRIENDSHIP. 

f Idolatrous Fancy 
Sanctifies the relics of a departed Friend. 

749. folly in this World often has the upper- 
hand of wisdom. 

Full oft we see 
Cold Wisdom waiting on superfluous Folly. 

750. CELIBACY. 

% To speak on the part of Celibacy is to accuse 
our Parents. 

751. AFFECTATION OF HUMILITY. 

fX Deceit or Affectation oft present 
Humble Ambition, proud Humility. 

752. benevolence would alway be ACTIVE. 
That wishing well had not a body in't 

"Which might be felt : that those, the poorer born, 
Whose baser stars do shut them up in wishes, 
Might with effects of them follow their friends, 
And shew what they alone must think. 



{M's Well that APHORISMS. 85 

ends Well.\ 

753. exertion — if just, should be made 
with Confidence. 
Our Remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
754. 

The fated Sky 
Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull 
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull *. 

755. esteem certainly to be acquired by right 

§ Who ever strove [Means. 

In vain to win by Merit good Men's Love ? 

756. equality natural. 

The mightiest space in fortune Nature brings 
To join like likes and kiss like native things. 

757 . distrust — creates impossibilities. 
Impossible be strange attempts, to those 

That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose 
What hath been cannot be. 

75S. virtue preferable to success. 
Howe'er our prospects may deceive us, 
Be fixt our good intents ; and never leave us. 

759- confidence — it's Grounds. 
Love, Truth, and Wisdom, well approved, may 
For amplest credence. [plead 

760. resemblance external — indicates cor- 
responding mind. 
©Who bears a virtuous Parent's face 
Bears signature of Promise to inherit 
Their moral Parts. 

76l. gentleman. 
In a true Gentleman contempt or bitterness 
There is not — pride or sharpness. 

* Nullum numen abest si sit Prudentia. 

J\JV. 



$6 SHAKESPERIAN [AiTs wm tbdf 

ends WdL\ 

762. HONOR. 

Honor, 
Clock to itself, knows the true minute when 
Exception bids it speak : and at the time 
The tongue obeys it's hand. [benevolent. 

763. greatness true — is unassuming and 
True Greatness ever has for it's companion 
True Courtesy, unfeign'd Benevolence : 

And bows it's eminent top to lowly station. 
764. goodness persuasive above allELOQV en ce. 
The Eloquence of Goodness 
Scatters not words in the ear ; but graftcth them 
To grow there and to bear. 

765. SELF-COMMENDATION. 

We wound our modesty and make foul the 
clearness of our deserving, when of ourselves we 
publish them. 

766. SERVICE. 

Service is no heritage *. 

767. CHILDREN. 

Bairns are blessings ||. [abused. 

768. passions — natural and blameless, if not 
Blame not our passions ; blame but the abuse : 
If we are Nature's, these are our's. 

769. LOVE. 

It is the shew and seal of Nature's Truth 
When Love's strong passion is imprest in Youth. 

770. MARRIAGE. 

Marriage comes by destiny. 

* This is, either was in the time of Shakespeare a Proverb, as is most 
probable, or has since become so. 

li This ought always to be a Proverb. Wretched indeed is the condi- 
tion of that Land, however splendid it's appearance, the majority of 
whose inhabitants suffer under that bitterest reflection — so feelingly 
cxpresst by Nathaniel Bloomfield — 

'The curse to wish their Children may be few/ 



lAU*s Well thai APHORISMS. 87 

ends Well.] 

771. ADOPTION. 

? Tis often seen 
Adoption strives with Nature ; and choice breeds 
A native slip to us from foreign seeds. 

772. love sanctioned differs from lawless. 
There's difference in that Love which hath a bond 
Whereof the World take note. 

773. X True Affection will 
Wish chastely and love dearly. 

71 4. love not to be requited with hate. 
Let not Hate encounter Love. [Receiver. 

775. gifts — are as the Heart of the Giver and 
© A Gift keeps even measure with the Heart, 
And doth expand in worth and efficacy 
As 'tis received. 

776. low and other passions — self- deceptive. 
Full oft the Heart 
Will not confess it owns the malady 
That doth it's Life besiege. 

777. ignorance ostentatious. 

X Conceited Ignorance with much of wonder 
It's nothing ever prologues. 

778. praise — to name the truehj deserving is 

to praise them. 
For the truely Great and Good 
Well may we spare detail of praises on them ; 
To know them and to name them is enough'". 

779- EMPYRICS. 

We must not 
So stain our judgment and corrupt our hope 
To prostitute a past cure malady 
To empyrics : and to dissever so 

* The Epitaph of Tasso:— Torquati Taesi Ossa, 

I 2 



38 SHAKESPERIAN {MS Well that 

ends Well*\ 

Our reason from our feelings to esteem 
A senseless help. 

7S0. man judges by appearances— gob 
alone sees the reality. 
It is not so with HIM who all things knows 
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows. 

781. god — the cause of all causes. 
It is presumption in us when 

The help of Heaven we count the act of Man, 

782. life — w h erein it's Value consists . 

X All that Life can rate 
Worth name of Life in these hath estimate, 
Health, Beauty, Wisdom, Courage, Virtue. 

783. LUXURY. 
Highly fed, lowly taught, 

7S4. virtue Me sole? permanent) and perpetual 
1J Things may serve long but not ever. [good. 

785. EQUANIMITY. 

t 'Tis ill to make trifles of terrors, or terrors of 
trifles. 

786. youth— Excellence in it P 

In youthful years 

Wisdom and Constancy are doubly honor'd. 

787. 
Heaven often helps when help past sense we 
788. knowledge pretended. [deem. 

We often ensconce ourselves in seeming know- 
ledge, when we should submit to an unknown Cause. 

7S9- justice is WISDOM. 
1f For thine own sake, never do others wrong. 
790. names change not nature. 
Do not dislike 
Of Virtue for a name. 



[Air* mil thai APHORISMS. so 

ends Well.] * 

791. providence produceth great Effects by 

weak Instruments, 
He that of greatest works is finisher 
Oft does them by the weakest minister. 

792. expectation of ten contradicted on either 

side by events. 
t Oft Expectation fails ; and most oft there 
Where most it promises : and oft it hits 
Where Hope is coldest and Despair most reigns. 

793. services not accepted. 

Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. 

794. the act dignifies the station. 
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 
The place is dignified by the doer's deed. 

795* station an Encumbrance if without 

VIRTUE. 

Where great Addition swells and Virtue none, 
It is a dropsied honor. 

796. qualities not to be judged by names, 

Good alone 

Is Good, without a name ; — Vileness is so. 

797. 
The property by what it is, should go, 
Not by the title. 

795. natural perfection s — superior to 

derivative Estimation. 
X§ To be wise and fair 
Derives from Nature as immediate heritage. 
And these breed Honor. 

799» honors — none true hit the inherent. 
Honors best thrive 
When rather from our Acts we them derive^ 
Than our foregoers. 

1 3 



50 SHAKESPERIAN [AW, Well that 

ends WelL\ 

800. KOKOR-sepulchraloft' lavisht on the unworthy. 

Host or ! — the mere word's a slave; 
Debauch' d on every tomb, on every grave: 
A lying trophy; and as oft is dumb, 
Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb 
Of honor'd bones indeed *. 

801. obedien c e — where always due. 

Kt Obey that will which travels in thy Good : 
Therefore obey Heaven alway. 

802. pride and obstinacy to be shiuiri d. 
Believe not thy Disdain. 

803. 
Do to thy Fortune that obedient Right 
Which Duty owes. 

804. COXCOMB. 

The Soul of a Coxcomb is his Cloaths. 

805. EXTRAVAGANCE. 

Many have sold a goodly Manor for a Song. 

806. FRIENDSHIP. 

If Friends engross their Sorrows to themselves^ 
They rob their Friends a moiety. 

807. FORTITUDE. 

What Courage dares too well do, that Virtue 
dares not do without just occasion. 

SOS. ANGER. 
Do not plunge thyself too far in Anger, 
Lest thou hasten thy trial. 

809. god our sole master. 

XHe whom we serve above is alone our Master ||* 

810. strife domestic — the worst . 

War is no strife 
To the dark house and the detested Wife. 

* Nobilitas sola est atque unica Virtus. JU\% 

B One is your Master. MATTH. xxiii. 8. 



[All's muthat APHORISMS. 91 

ends WelL\ 

811. EXPERIENCE of AFFLICTION ^HAP- 

PINESS teaches moderation in both. 
Who have felt many quirks of Grief and Joy, 
Them the first face of either at the start 
Cannot subdue. 

812. MURTHER. 

Whose'er the hand, he murthers who is cause 
.Of Death unjustly' effected. 

813. guilt — the worst of EYILS. 

Better 'twere 
That all the miseries which Nature owns 
Were ours at> once than Guilt. [powers. 

814. charge — avoid a public beyond thy 
As far as Honor will permit, decline 

A Charge too heavy for thy strength. 

815. HUSBAND. 

What Angel can 

Of a good Wife bless the unworthy Husband. 

816. GPviEF. 

Grief would have tears*. 

817. worth — it's Attendance. 

X§ Danger, Death, Envy, dog the heels of Worth. 

818. virtue above wealth. 
No Legacy is so rich as Honesty. 

8 19- promises. 
§ Promises, Oaths, and Tokens, are not the 
things they seem. 

820. CREDULITY. 

«0 Against Vanity, Inexperience, and Passion, 
the irequency of miserable examples is of little 
avail to dissuade succession. 

*' AYIIH cog KagTTQv Aevfyov £%si 7* 
AAKPTA, menand. 



92 SHAKESPERIAN {AW, mil that 

ends Well^ 

821. 
t Birds are still limed with twigs : how many 
wiser soever have been caught and perisht. 
822. 

X It is fit to know Men : lest reposing in some 
Virtue which they have not, they may in some 
trusty apd great business to our great danger fail us. 

823. merit where not sterling. 

>£ A counterfeit lump of ore betrays itself in 
the melting. 

824. DETECTION. 

There are those who will steal into our favor, 
and for a week will escape discovery ; but once 
found out they are known for Life. 

825. OATHS. 

'Tis not the many Oaths that make the truth; 
But the plain single Vow that is vow'd true. 

826. 
Oaths are but words, and poor conditions, 

827. love — it's purity. 
Love is holy. 

828. TREACHERY. 

Treasons commonly betray themselves ere they 
attain their ends. 

829. impudence. 

XI Most impudent is that Vice which trumpets 
it's own unlawful intents. 

830. human nature often misjudges it's 

gains and LOSSES. 
How mightily sometimes we make us Comforts 
of our losses : And how mightily some other times 
we drown our gain in tears*. 

* Pauci dignoseere possunt 
Vera Bona, atque illis multum djversa, remota 
Erroris nebula. JUV. 



[AW* Well that APHORISMS. 03 

ends IVell.] J 

831. HUMAN NATURE — JlOW mixt. 

The web of our Life is of a mingled yarn, good 
and ill together, 
832. 

Our Virtues would be proud, if our faults 
whipt them not ; and our Crimes would despair, 
if they were not cherisht by our virtues. 

833. SELF-DECEPTION. 

© Vice is disposed, if possible, to imagine in 
it's worst actions some justifiable meaning, 
834. 

He who contrives against the nobility of his own 
Mind, overflows himself in his proper streams. 

835. BOASTERS. 

Sooner or later it will come to pass 
That every braggart will be found an Ass. 

836. confidence not to be rested on slight 

and fanciful Grounds. 
Never trust a man for keeping his sword 
clean ; nor believe he can have every thing in 
him, by wearing his apparel neatly. 

837. conspiracy may overwhelm the most 

INNOCENT. 

Who cannot be crushed with a plot ? [support. 

838. men — all have some proper distinction and 
There's place and means for every man alive. 

839- virtue courageous. 
Where Death goes with Honesty, 
The Virtuoms will not shrink. 

840. end to be regarded. 
All is Well that ends Well*. 

* This is the Mot of the Play : the Conclusion resulting from it. 
The French have many Plays called Proverbs, for the same reason. 



94 SHAKESPERIAN lAir* milthat 

ends Well^\ 

841. patience assures a Good End. 

Be Suffering what it may, Time will bring Summer, 
When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns, 
And be as sweet as sharp. 

842. infidelity — not to be trusted by the 

CORRUPTER. 

© The Man who will trust a Woman who is 
unfaithful to her Husband may generally lay good 
claim to being both knave and fool. 

843. virtue arduous — especially to the Rich.- 
The narrow Gate of Virtue is too little for 

Pomp to enter*. 

844. necessity unceremonious. 

Sharp Occasions 
W T ill lay nice Manners by. 

845. virtues sometimes require to be stimu- 
lated into Action. 

'Tis good and needful oft to put Men to 
The use of their own Virtues. 

846\ GRATITUDE. 

Grati ude 
Thro' flinty Tartars' bosoms can speak forth 
And answer, thanks. 

847. wounds honorable in a good Cause. 
A Scar nobly got is a good livery of Honor. 

848. REGRET. 

Praising what is lost 
Makes the Remembrance dear. 

S49. FORGIVENESS. 

© To true Forgiveness 

* Again a Scriptural Allusion. " Strive to enter by the straight 
Gate." And " It is as easy for a Camel to pass through the eye ox a 
Needji.e, as for a rich Man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." 



[MPs mil that APHORISMS. 95 

ends IVell.] 

Offence is dead, and deeper than oblivion 
The incensing reliques buried. 

850. virtue like the sux, 

To brightest beams 
Distracted clouds give way. 

851. procrastination to be avoided. 
Waste no vain words on the consumed time. 
But take the instant by the forward top : 

For on Man's best resolv'd, best urg'd decrees,. 
The inaudible and viewless foot of Time 
Steals, ere he can effect. 

852. repentance when too late. 

Love that comes too late, 
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, 
Does to the sender turn a sour offence, 
Crying " That's good that's gone." 

853. 

Our own rash faults- 
Make trivial things of serious things we have. 
Not knowing them until we know their grave. 

854. 
Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, 
Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust. 

855. 
Our own Love waking cries to see what's done. 
While shameful Plate sleeps on. 

856. desire heightened by opposition. 
All impediments in Fancy's course 
Are motives of more Fancy. 

S57- love dishonorable. 
To love dishonorably is to love and love not. 

858. CONTRAST. 

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. 



96 SHAKESPERIAN P"w» Gatkmm 

of yeronaJ] 

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. 

859- travelling recommended. 
Home-keeping Youths have ever homely wits*. 

860. IDLENESS. 

Waste not thine Youth in shapeless Idleness. 

861. love dwells in finest Spirits. 

As in the sweetest bud 
The eating Canker dwells : so eating Love 
Inhabits in the finest Wits of all. 

862. — but preys on them. 

As the most forward bud 
Is eaten by the Canker ere it blow ; 
Even so by Love the young and tender wit 
Is turn'd to folly : blasting in the bud. 
Losing his verdure even in the prime, 
And all the fair effects of future hopes* 

863. love — it's POWER. 

§ There are who leave self, Friends, and all, for 

864. [Love. 
Love is a mighty Lord : 

There is no woe to his correction ; 
Nor to his favor any earthly joy. 

S60 . l o v e — it's Perverseness. 
'Tis pity Love should be so contrary : 
To doat on those who care not for our Love, 
To dream on those who have forgot our Love. 

866. lover s — their Punctuality. 
Lovers break not hours, 
Unless it be to come before their time ; 
So much they spur their expedition. 

* This must not be taken as an absolute Aphorism, butdramati* 
cally : with allowance for the Speaker. 



[Tzvo Gentlemen APHORISMS. 97 

of Verona .] 

Stij. LOVE. 

Wayward is Love, 
That like a testy Babe will scratch the Nurse, 
And presentl} 7, all humbled kiss the rod. 

S6S. LOVE A PROMISE IX. 

In Love 

A Promise is not slight: 'tis Honor's pawn, 

869. ELIIs D. 

Love is blind. 

870. love — quid:- sighted, active, and acute, 
© Love lends wings and wit. 

871. love concealed. 

Fire that is closest kept burns most of all. 

872. cannot be kept always secret. 

He never loved that can conceal his love, 

873. love does not p rocla im itself. 

% He never loved who lets ail know his love, 

S74. silent. 

Love can not speak. 

875. lovers think only of l o v e . 

For an ardent Lover, 

Is no discourse except it be of Love : 

And such can break their fast, dine, sup, and sleep. 

Upon the very naked name of Love, 

876. LOYVfo?ld o/PRAISE. 

Love delights in Praise. 

S77 . love full of j e a l u s y , 
Love is full of Jealousy. 

878. love overcomes friendship that has 
Weakness in it. 
G Be there in Friendship aught the least infirm. 
Love weakens and subdues such Friendship quite- 



K 



.98 SIIAKESPERIAN irwfiW** 

of Veronal 
879- LOVE teffO EQUIVALENT. 

Love is still most precious in itself. 

880. — — not to be overpowered by words. 
'Tis easier to kindle fire with snow, 

Than 'tis to quench the fire of Love with words. 

881. not to be annihilated but subjected to 

REASON. 

Do not seek to quench Love's fire ; 
But qualify the Fire's extreme rage, 
Lest it should burn above the bounds of Reason. 

8S2. HAPPINESS qf VIRTUOUS. 

Whose, long toils end in true and virtuous Love, 
The}' rest content : as after much turmoil, 
A blessed soul doth in Elysium. 

883* love and fidelity perfect. 
Happy and worthiest of esteem are those 
Whose words are Bonds ; whose oaths are Oracles ; 
Whose Love sincere; whose thoughts immaculate; 
Whose tears pure messengers sent from the Heart; 
Whose heart as far from fraud as Heaven from 

884. love sincere has no flattery. [Earth. 
Women should know, 
Deceit more promptly than sincerest Love 
Can flatter, praise, commend, extol their graces. 

8S5. love inconstant. 

Inconstant Love is like a Child 
That longs for every thing he can come by. 

886. 
Even as one heat another heat expels, 
So the remembrance of a former Love 
Is by a newer object quite forgotten. 

88/. love. 

The Spring of Love resembleth 



\T-wo Gentlemen APHORISMS. 99 

of Verona?^ 

The uncertain glory of an April day ; 
Which now shews all the beauty of the Sun, 
And bye and bye a cloud takes all away. 

SS8. death less than perpetual Estrangement 
from those ice lore. 
Death is less terrible than living torment : 
Estrangement from one's-self is Death indeed ; 
A banishment from those we truely love 
Is self from self. 

889- love fl sligh t Imp rcssion . 
A weak impress of Love is as a figure 
Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat 
Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. 

S90. love not to be despised. 
To plead for Love deserves more fee than hate. 

89 1 • l o v e — sharp-sighted and blind. 
Some say that Love hath twenty pair of eyes ; 
And some that Love hath not an eye at all. 

892. restless. 

Love chaseth sleep from the enthralled eyes. 

893. love trifles with itself. 
Alas ! how Love can trifle with itself. 

894 . rests not in profession. 

Love hath better deeds than words to grace it. 

895. love — what is Music to it. 
There is no Music like the voice 

Of those we love. 

896. -forbearing. 

5T+ Love will lend patience to forbear awhile. 

%97 . force augmented by opposition. 
The Current that with gentle murmur glides, 
Thou know'st, being stopt, impatiently doth rage; 
But when his fair course is not hindered, 
k 2 



100 SHAKESPERIAN [T™ (M«« 

He makes sweet music with th' enameli'd stones, 

Giving a gentle kiss to every ridge 

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; 

And so by many winding nooks he strays, 

With willing sport, to the wild Ocean. 

898. SHEPHERD. 

The Shepherd seeks the Sheep ; and not the 
Sheep the Shepherd. 

899- 
The Sheep doth often stray, 
If the Shepherd be awhile away. 

900. company — Men are judged by their. 
Those persons who are yoked with a Fool, 
Are very rarely chronicled for wise*. 

901. f id el it 'Y not boastful. 

G True Fidelity j| 
Thinks it hath done it's Duty; and nought else, 

902. DISQUALIFYING. 

Vain is discourse of Disability. 

903. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

Oft may we read Men's fortunes in their eyes. 

904. ABSENCE. 

G t Some leave their friends to dignify them more 
By honor'd Absence and endear'd Return. 

905. CONFIDENCE Without REASON. 

5T I think it so because I think it so, 

Is oft not less a Man's than Woman's reason, 

906. writings corruptive. 

Great is the Crime to harbour wanton lines 
That whisper and conspire 'gainst virgin Youth, 

* Noscitur a sociis. 
II ' Say " we are unprofitable Servants : for we have done that which 
^as our Duty to do 9 " LUC. xvii. lo 9 



{Two Gentlemen APHORISMS. \0\ 

of Kerona^ 

907. resentment, coquet ish. 
There is a wayward mimicry of Anger 

Which prays for that for which it seems to chide, 

908. modesty, virgin. 
Maidens in Modesty say no to that 

Which they would have the profferer construe aye. 

909. HYPOCRISY. 

I Hypocrisy can teach the brow to smile 
When inward pangs enforce the Heart to bleed. 

910. MODESTY. 

§ A virgin Shame may teach the Brow to frown 
When inward joy has taught the heart to smile. 

911. experience t he fruit of Industry and 
Experience is by Industry atchiev'd, [Time, 
And perfected by the swift course of Time. 

912. THE HEART. 

The Hand should be the agent of the Heart, 

913. truth expresseth herself in actions. 
<[ Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 

914. exertion if virtuous never thrown away* 
Duty never yet did want it's meed. 

915. LEARNING AND REASON. 

Learning with Reason makes 
Youth, by anticipate Experience, old. 

916. friends hi p — it's sincerity. 

X Friends to sick Friends minister bitter pills*. 

91/. duty — must not be.a pretence. 
Duty may prompt a man to utter that 
Which nought of worldly good could draw from 
But let him see that it is Duty truely. [him* 

* Absinthia tetra medentes 
Vl dare cpnantur, LUC RET. 

K 3 



102 SHAKESPERIAN [r™. &*/«.« 

of Verona.] 

91S. gifts/ 

Presents in their silent kind 
More move than Eloquence a sordid Mind. 
919- knavery not so secret as it supposes, 
A Fool may have wit enough to see that another 
is a Knave. [virtue. 

920. speech — not to be hasty in it a great 
To be slow in words is a chief Virtue. 

921. PRIDE. 

Pride is Man's legacy from his first Parents. 

922. CHANGE. 

He wants wit that wants resolved will 

To teach his wit to exchange the bad for better, 

923. PILGPvIM. 

A true devoted Pilgrim is not weary 

To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps* 

924 . oaths — deceitful. 

Oaths and Tears 
Are servants to deceitful Men. 

925. PERJURY. 

Base men use Oaths to an effect as base. 

926. woman. [her. 
A Woman sometimes scorns what best contents 

927.* exertion our Duty, not lamentation. 
Cease to lament for that thou can'st not help ; 
And study help for that which thou lamentest. 

928. TIME. 

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 

929. defects — xvhat are most disgustful to 
Falsehood and Cowardice [women. 

Are things that Women highly hold in hate. 

930. friends — imputations from them 
What would be slighted from an enemy [cut deep. 
And then would seem but as it is, a falsehood, 



fTivo Gentlemen APHORISMS. 103 

of Verona. J 

Oft wounds like truth, with circumstance, if spoken 
By one who is esteemed as a Friend ; 
,r iis an ill office for a Gentleman, 
Or any Man, against a very Friend. 

931. POETRY. 
Much is the force of Heaven-bred Poesy. 

.932. 
Orpheus' Lute was strung with Poet's sinews, 
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, 
Make Tygers tame, and huge Leviathans 
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 

9-33. BEAUTY AND KINDNESS. 

Beauty lives with Kindness. 

93\. defenceless — those who are so Courage 
esteems inviolable. 
E'en Robbers will abhor an outrage offer' d 
To Women, or unarmed Travellers. 
935. education apparent in air 0/zJmanners. 

X The Face and the Behaviour 
Do witness good bringing up. 

936. E LATTERY. 

Shallow it is 
To be seduced by a Flattery 
That has deceived many by it's vows. 

937« marriage against the h e a r t — unholy. 
Unholy is a match against the Heart ; 
Heaven still with plagues rewards it. 

938. peevishness. 

Peevishness 
Will fly good Fortune when it follows swiftest*. 

939. 
Use doth breed habit in a man. 

* The first change may make persons good-humoured: hut the habi- 
tude of Prosperity often makes or increases Peevishness : which is 
Discontent without or beyond Reason, 



101 ' SHAKESPERIAN '[T«» G»*&»« 

of Veronal 
940. DUPLICITY. 

Better to have none 
Than plural faith, which is too much by one. 
94-1. gentleness — tltose whom it cannot 
move are of the worst disposition. 
Cold, stubborn, selfish, is that Heart indeed 
"Which not the gentle Spirit of moving words 
Prevails to change into a milder form. 

942. friend — Treacher!/ of one. 

>£ By a Friend 
To be betray'd, is as one's own right-hand 
Were perjur'd to the bosom. 

943. GUILT. 
Guilt confounds. 

944. repentance true redeems an Offence, 

Let hearty Sorrow 
Be a sufficient ransom for offence. 

1 945. 
"Who by Repentance is not satisfied 
Is not of Heaven or Earth. 

946\ 
By Penitence the' Eternal's wrath's appeaVd, 

94/. sorrow secret, 
o The private wound is deepest. 

948. FRiENB,y«&€; the worst enemy. 
'Along all Foes that a Friend should be the worst, 

949. inconstancy — it's baneful effects. 

Were Alan 
But constant he were perfect : that one Error 
Fills him with faults, makes him run through all 
9.50. [sins. 

Inconstancy falls off ere it begins * ||. 

f Properly speaking, Love is the Mot of this most charming Drama. 
!l L' Amant qui change ne chauge pas : il commence ou firtit d'aimer. 

BOVSSEAtf, 



Julius Ccesar.] APHORISMS, 105 

JULIUS C2ESJR. 

951. crimixa L s — not irreclaimable. 
K+ Men banisht for offences still are Men, 
Perhaps endued with worthy qualities, 
And let them be recall'd from their exile, 
May be reformed, civil, full of good, 
And fit for great employment. 

952. desert should be the measure af honor. 
X Ye who are in power 
Dispose of Men as their deserts ye know. 
953, 

Domestic Good is this, 
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness, 

954. FLATTERER. 

Whom you know 

To be a common laugher, or is used 

To stale with ordinary oaths his love 

To every new protester : Whom you know 

That he does fawn on men and hug them hard s 

And after scandal them : or whom you know 

That he professes loud in banqueting 

To all the rout, — him hold thou dangerous, 

955. PATRIOTISM. 

If there be aught toward the general Good, 
Set Honor in one eye and Death i' the other, 
And thou should'st look on Death indifferently,, 

956. HONOR. 

- - — Love 
The name of Honor more than thou fear'st Death, 

957. fear servile. 

I had as lief not be as live to be 
la awe of such a thing as I myself. 



106 SHAKESPERIAN [Jul. Cccsar. 

95S. wisdom — is Power. 
Men at some time are masters of their Fate, 

959. society bad — corruptive. 

'Tis meet 
That noble Minds keep ever with their likes, 
For who so firm that cannot be sedue'd* ? 

960. prognostic s— fanciful or superstitious, 
Men may construe things after their fashion 
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. 

961. fire quick — light fuel. 

Those that with haste will make a mighty fire 
Begin it with weak straws. 

962. mind — it's Power, 

Nor stony Tower, nor walls of beaten brass, 
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, 
Can be retentive to the strength of Spirit. 
963. 

A generous Spirit with itself at war 
Forgets the shews of love to other men. 

964. confidence — want of f 
Mistaking others, many a breast hath buried 
Thoughts of great value worthy cogitations, 

965. REFLECTION. 

Neither the Eye nor Mind beholds itself 
But by Reflection. 

966. prudence. 

>£ What is said 
Wisdom considers : what remains to say 
It will with patience hear ; and find a time 
Both meet to hear and answer highest things. 

* (pSfSlPZCtV 7l$q %(*%&&' OjJilXiCCl KCCKOC!. 



Julius Cxsar.) APHORISMS. 107 

967 . charact e r — Rules for discovering. 

X Be cautious of those Men who, reading much, 
Little communicate ; are stern and cold : — ■ 
Of Men who love no Plays ; and hear no Music : 
Who pass for great observers ; and to look 
Quite thro* the deeds of Men, and see most keenly 
The faults and failings of the noblest Nature : 
Who seldom smile ; and smile in such a sort 
As if they mock'd themselves, and scorn' d their 
That could be mov'd to smile at any thing, [spirit 
Such Men as these are never at heart's rest 
While they behold a greater than themselves : 
And therefore they are very dangerous. 

968. folly most difficult for a Man of Sense 

to describe. 
© It is never more difficult for a man of sense 
to describe the maimer of a thing, than when the 
thing itself is mere foolery, 

909. dullness — sometimes apparently exists 
in the most active and greatest Minds. 
K Some Men have mettle in the execution 
Of any bold or noble enterprise, 
Who wear at other times a tardy form. 
970. rough xes s-sometimcs serves as a Seasoning. 
X There is in some strong Minds a kind of 

roughness 
Which serves them as a sauce for their good wit. 
And gives men stomach to digest their words 
With better appetite. 

971. prodigies and omens — a bad con- 
science theTarent of them. 
Titties are most full of prodigies and omens 
Which are most full of faults : — the Conscience 
Teems with portentous images of horror, 



103 SHAKESPERIAN [Jul. Ccesar, 

972. P R a I s E — ill-bestowed — worthless. 
What trash is Praise, Genius itself how vile, 
What rubbish and what offal, when it serves 
For the base matter to illuminate 
Tyranny and Corruption, 

973. POPULARITY. 

Great is the influence, — greater oft than just, — - 
Of him who sits high in the People's hearts; 
And that which would appear offence in others, 
His countenance, like richest alchymy, 
Will change to virtue and true worthiness. 

97 '4. vice called forth by opportunity. 
It is the bright day that brings forth the Adder : 
And that craves wary walking. 

975. tyranny defined. 
The Abuse of Greatness is when it disjoins 
Remorse from Power. [bition. 

97 6. humility feigned — the Ladder of a m- 
Lowliness is young Ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber- upward turns his face ; 
But when he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back ; 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend. 

977. 
Resist Beginnings *; — whatsoe'er is ill, 
Though it appear light and of little moment. 
Think of it thus— that what it is, augmented, 
Would run to these and these extremities ; . 
Deem of it therefore as a Serpent's egg, 
Which hatcht would, as it's kind, grow mis- 
And crush it in the shell. [chievous, 

* Priiicipiis obsta a OV. 



Julius Caesar. 1 APHORISMS, 109 

97S. MACHINATIONS of VIOLENCE. 

Between the acting of a dreadful thing, 
And the first motion, a]l the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: 
The Genius, and the mortal instruments* 
Are then in council; and the State of Man, 
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then 
The nature of an insurrection, 
979- CONSPIRACY. 

Conspiracy, tnight, 

Shame'st thou to shew thy dangerous brow by 
When evils are most free ? O, then, by day 
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough 
To mask thy monstrous visage ? 

9S0. OATH, 

§ What other Oath 
Than Honesty to honesty engag'd ? [souls 

Swear priests and cowards, and such suffering 
That welcome wrongs. — Unto bad causes swear 
Such creatures^as men doubt. But do not stain 
The even virtue of a good emprize, 
Nor the insuppressive* mettle of true spirits, 
To think that, or the cause, or the performance* 
Can need an oath. 

981. DESIRE of LEADING. 

© There are who will not follow any thing 
That other men begin. 

982. AGE — it's AUTHORITY. 

2. Silver hairs 
Will purchase us a good opinion, 
And buy men's voices to commend our deeds. 

* For " unsuppressible." go MILTON uses " inexpressive:" sftWS" 
VIRGIL, « penetrabile." 



110 SHAKESPERIAN [Jul Cctsar. 

983. violenc e — all unnecessary ^tyranny, 
© To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs ? 
Is wrath in death and envy afterwards*. 

984. 
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers. 

985. FLATTERY. 

§ As Unicorns may be betray' d with trees, 
And Bears with glasses, Elephants with holes, 
Lions with toils: — so Men with flatterers. 

986. lov'd by those who seem to 

despise it. 

2. Tell a vain man that he hates flattery, 
He says he does : — being then most flatter'd. 

987. conspiracy — dark and subtle. 

§ Subtle Conspiracy- 
Lets not it's looks put on it's purposes. 

988. humour or WHIM. 

Humour 
Will sometime have his hour with every man, 

989. sleep — whose soundest. 

3. Who has no fantasies 
Which busy care draws in the brain, may well 
Enjoy the honied dew of heavy slumber. 

990. AIR— DAMP. 

4. It is not physical 
To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours 
Of the dark Morning. 

991. COWARDICE. 

Cowards die many times before their deaths. 

992. COURAGE. 

The Valiant never taste of Death but once. 

* BECCAftlA says justly, even of legal Acts, " Ogtii atto d'autorita 
^ht Hen &t- deriva cU »«cessite assoluta c' tiranni«a.*' 



Julius Ccesar.] APHORISMS. Ill 

993. DEATH. 

It seems most strange that men should fear to die: 
Seeing that Death, a necessary end, 
Will come, when it will come. 

994. confidence— -false. 
Wisdom consumes itself in confidence. 

9Q5. SECRECY — difficult. 

G Hard it is to keep counsel. 

996. death — Life is but a protracted. 
That we shall die we know : — 'tis but the time 
And drawing days out that men stand upon. 

997* vi rtue cannot escape e n v y. 
The heart laments that Virtue cannot live 
Out of the teeth of Emulation*. 

995. CEREMONY. 

When Love begins to sicken and decay, 
It useth an enforced ceremony. 

999- SINCERITY. 

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith, 1 

1000. passion contagious. 
Passion is catching. 

1001. bribes despicable and odious. 

2. § Should high Minds 
Contaminate their fingers with base bribes, 
And sell the mighty space of their large honours 
For so much trash as may be grasped thus r 

1002. the good fearless of obloquy. 
3. § There is no terror to the good in threats, 
For they are arrn'd so strong in honesty, 
That they pass by them as the idle wind. 

1003. triend — duty of. 

A Friend should bear a Friend's infirmities. 

* Comperit invidiam supremo fine domari. H0R» 

L 2 



112 SHAKESPERIAN [Jul. Cesar. 

1004. FLATTERER. 

A flatterer's eye will never see our faults. 
Though huge as high Olympus. 

1005. PLACABILITY. 

K The mild bear Anger as the flint bears fire, 

1006. PHILOSOPHY. 

Of your Philosophy you make no use, 
If you give place to accidental evils*. 

1007. FORTITUDE. 

O Firmly great men great losses should endure. 

1008. reasons — their balance. 

Good Reasons must of force give place to better. 

1009. life human — it's Tide. 
There is a Tide in the affairs of men, 

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortunej 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 

1010. 
We must take the current when it serves, 
Or lose our ventures. 

1011. NECESSITY. 

Nature must obey Necessity. 

1012. REST. 

Young bloods look for a time of rest. 

1013. persuasion better than force. 

2. Good Words are better than bad Strokes. 

1014. prudence is prepared against the worst + 

3. Since the affairs of men rest still uncertain, 
Let's reason with the worst that may befall. 

1015. futurity better not foreseen. 

4. We are prone to wish — ' O that a man might 
* The end of the day's business ere it come !' [know 

* Brutus was a Stoic : and Cassias here applies to him (though his 
self an Epicurean) the true language of Stoicism. 



{Antony and APIIORJSMS. \}A 

CUeftatra.*] 

But it sufllceth that the day will end ; 
And then the end is known. 

10l6\ error — baneful. 
O hateful Error ! Melancholy's Child ! 
Why dost thou shew to the apt thoughts of men, 
The things that are not ? 

1017. 

Error, soon eonceiv'd, 
Thou never corn's t unto a happy birth, 
But kilTst the Mother that engender' d thee. 

1018. victory — how to be us d. [kindness; 
O Good men subdued wise foes will treat with 
Wishing them rather Friends than Enemies. 

1019. merit — to be treated as it is. 

K According to men's Virtues let us use them. 



ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. 

1020. LOVE. 

There's beggary in the Love that can be reckon'd. 

1021. nature — the Book of . 

X In Nature's infinite book of secresy 
A little can be read. 

1022. ill news, 

The nature of bad News infects the teller. 

1023. TRUTH. 

2. § Who tells us true, though in his tale lye 
Hear him as if he flatter' d : for bad News [death, 
Then, only then, affects the messenger, 
When it concerns the Fool or Coward. 

1024-. IRRITATION. 

Let's not confound the time with conference harsh. 
l 3 



114- SHAKESPERIAN V**** ""* 

Cleo[iatra?± 

1025. THE AGREEABLE. 

Those 
Whom every thing becomes, — to chide, to laugh, 
To weep; whose every passion fully strives 
To ma-ke itself, in them, fair and admir'd, 
Should most of all be heedful of their conduct. 

1026. PAST. 

Things that are past are done. 

1027. censure — it's use. 

Then we bring forth weeds 
When our quick winds lie still : and our Ills told us 
Is as our earing*. - - - 

1028. IDLENESS. 

Ten thousand harms more than the ills we know 
Our Idleness doth hatch. 

1 029. idleness — affected— or seeming l E ■ v i t y. 
Oft seeming Idleness is heaviest labour 
Borne at the Heart. 

1030. levity. Avoid light answers. 

1031. NECESSITY — EXIGENCE. 

The strong Necessity of Time commends 
Our services. 

1032. COLLISION o/POWER. 

Equality of two domestic powers 
Breeds jealous factions. 

1033. LICENTIOUSNESS — CH A N G E, 

Licentious Ease, grown sick of rest, would purge 
By any desperate Change. 
1034?. CONTRAST. 

Faults in the Good seem as the spots in Heaven, 
More £ery by Night's blackness f. 

* ' Faring,' perhaps from * arare/ harrowing or any mode of clearing 
ptti Ground. 
f Gjppositajmrta posita magis eiuc&scunt> 



\ Antony and APHORISMS. 115 

Cleofiatra^\ 

1035. UNKINDNESS. 

5T To affectionate and tender natures Unkind* 
ne»ss is mortal. 

1036. duty — PUBLIC. 

O To a great Public Cause all Private Consi^ 
derations must yield and be as nothing. 

1037. suspicion. 

2. Do not too hastily believe in Man 
Evils enough to darken all his Goodness 

1 03 S . x o v e l t y — Desire of it. 
It has been taught us from the primal state 
That he which is was wish'd until he were ; 
And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth 
Comes dear'd by being lackt. [love, 

103p. regret too late. 
What our Contempts do often hurl from us 
We wish it our's again. 

104-0. pleasure liable to change to disgust, 
The present Pleasure, 
By Revolution lowering, does become 
The opposite of itself. 

1041. oaths fallacio us. 

Mouth-made vows 
Do break themselves in swearing. 

1042. boy's — their rash and mutable judgments,* 

Boys, immature in knowledge, 
Pawn their experience to their present pleasures. 
And so rebel to judgment'*. 

1043. inconstancy — the popular. 

The popular Body, 
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, 

* Imherbis Juvenis 
S.ubiiinh, cupidi&que k amata jelinquere pernix. HPR> 



116 SHAKESPERIAN [Antony and 

Cleopatra^ 

Goes to and back, lackying the varying tide 
To rot itself in motion. 

1044. excess — unbecoming. 
Of Grief or Mirth, 

A violence in either ill becomes. 

1045. justice dear to heavex. 

If the great Gods be just they shall assist 
The deeds of justest men. 

1046. PROVIDENCE. 

J What Providence delays it not denies. 

1047. policy — sordid. 

© A sordid policy gets money where 
It loses Hearts. 

1048. luxury deluges. 

Sleep and high feeding sink the sense of Honor 
E'en to a lethed dullness. 

1049. WISHES — human, their vanity. 

We, ignorant of ourselves, 
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 
Deny us for our good : so find we profit, 
By losing of our prayers*. 

1050. priority. 

j Though small to greater matters must give way, 
Trs not so always, "if the small come first. 

1051. irritation. 

5T By passionate speech 
Stir not bad embers up. 

1052. patience — conciliatory. 

What's amiss, 
May it be gently heard. 

* Permlttes ipsis expendere Numinibus quid 
Crmveniat nobis rebusque sjt utile nostris : 
Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaque dabunt D1I: 
Canor est' iilis Homo quam, sibh WW 



[Antony and APHORISMS. 117 

CleGJiati-a.} 

1053. SUAVITY. 

Touch you the sourest points with sweetest words : 
That man is to be pitied or be laugh' d at 
Whoe'er for nothing, or a little, must 
Confess himself offended. 

1054. union. 

Where what combin'd hath been most great, 
Inferior causes sever. [there let not 

1055. — ■ — — eear may cause it. 
Oft lesser Enmities give way to greater, 
And Fear cements divisions. 

1056. tim e— all is suitable to the wise and resolute, 
Every time 
Serves for the matter that is then born in it, 

1057. INVIDIOUSNESS. 

Invidious men obliquely praise themselves, 
Laying to wiser heads defects of judgment. 

1058. neglect — ever perilous. 

A Foe 
Thrives by his adversary's negligence. 

1059- a n g e 11 — makes petty differences great. 
When we debate 
Our trivial difference loud, we do commit 
Murther in healing wounds. [seek them. 

1060. pretences never wanted to those who 

2. Too promptly Men and States patch up a 

quarrel, 
Where matter whole there wants with which to 

1061. excess. [make it. 

3. Men newly feasted mostly want in judgment, 
If not in temper, what they were i' the morning, 

1062. EXCELLENCE. 

4. Virtue and genuine Graces in themselves 
Speak what no words can utter* 



118 SHAKESPERIAN U«t« v and 

Clcojiatra^ 

1063. INTEGRITY. 

Honesty 
Never makes Greatness poor ; nor ever Power 
Should work without Integrity. 

1064. TRUTH. 

1T That Truth should be silent a brave and 
honest Man will rarely remember. 

1065. MATTER MANNER^ 

Men do not readily attend to the matter of a 
Speech if they dislike the manner. 

1 066. AFFECTIO BT UUSllSpi CIO US. 

O To firm Affection 
All little Jealousies, which else seem great, 
Sink to their real nothing : and great Dangers 
Are overcome, not fear'd. [opposite senses, 

1067. AFFECTION AND ENMITY CVeduhusin 

InDissention false tales are received as truths : 
in perfect confidence truths that might weaken it 
are received as tales. 

1068. fear augments danger. 

Evils from which we shrink oft seek us out. 

1069. GRACEFULNESS. 

fl True Gracefulness makes e'en defects perfec- 
Age can not wither nor possession pall [tions : 
It's infinite variety*. 

1070. INCONSTANCY. 

2. Not Beauty, Wisdom, Modesty united, 
Can fix a vagrant heart. 

1071. exceptions disqualifying. 
But yet is as a Jailor to bring forth 
Some monstrous Malefactor. 

* Les Graces ne vieillissent pas. ROUSSEAU, 



\ Antony and APHORISMS. Up 

Cleojiatra.~\ 

1072. GOOD-WILL. 

When Good- Will is shewn, though it come too 
The actor may plead pardon. [short, 

1073. innocence «<^ always safe upon Earth . 
Some innocent 'scape not the thunder-bolt. 

1074. news bad. 

Though it be honest, 'tis a dangerous office 
To bring bad news. 

1075. 
Remember a mere Messenger of ill 
That must be told, does nothing but his duty. 

1076. be not hasty to impart it. 

• Give to a gracious message 

• An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 

• Themselves when they be felt*. 

1077. ELOW INSULT. 

% Those hands do lack Nobility that strike 
One of inferior station f. 

1078. couiiTS corrupt and punish. 

G To punish Men for what we make them do, 
The common Trick of Courts, is most unequal. 

1079. praise interested. 

2. There are who will praise any that will 
praise themi. 

1080. simplicity. 

§ Plainness is well meant. 

1081. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

All men's faces are true || ; whatsoe'er their 
hands are. 

* True Courtier-like policy. 

t The Poet had probably in his mind an anecdote of Elizabeth -, 
which makes a part\)f our History. 

X Asinus Asinum. 

i| Obscure. Either all Men's faces can assume the appearance tf 
Truth ; or all admit of a true interpretation. 



3 20 SMAKESPERIAN \Anli*y ani 

Gleofiatra.~\ 

1082. Representation modified by the 

PASSIONS. 

lie who is one way painted like a Gorgon 
The other way's a Mars. 

1083. villainy profits by the injury of 
The Cuckoo builds not for himself*. [others, 

1084. levity. 

He who laughs away a fortune cannot weep 
it back again. 

10S5. alliance — by marriage. 

2. In the Alliance of those whom we call the 
Great, the policy of the purpose generally makes 
more to the Marriage than the Love of the parties. 

1086. - — by treaty. 

Among Princes and States, the band that seems 
to tie their amity together is not unfrequently the 
very strangle? of it. 

1087. virtue— lovd only by those zvho have it. 

3. We rarely like the virtues we have not. 
10SS. 

4. A Man would not have his Wife be what he is 
In no degree himself* 

1089. society rarely desirable with those zvho 

are calVd the Great, 
It is no desirable thing for the most part to 
have a name in the fellowship of great men. 

1090. HONOR. 

'Tis not our profit that should lead our Honor ; 
But Honor it. 

1091. opportunity neglected. 

Who seeks and will not take when once r tis offer' d, 
Shall never find it more. 

* Sic yos non Yobis* 



\AMony aui APHORISMS. 121 

CUof*atra.~\ 

1092. WAVO^-must be proportioned to the Strength, 
It is as well to have a reed that will do us no 

service, as a partizan that we cannot heave. 
1093. station — degrades if superior to the 

Talents. 
To be caird into a huge sphere, and not to be 

seen to move in it, are the holes where eves 

should ber which pitifully disasters the cheek. 

1094. IGNORANCE. 

©. Ignorance thinks common things strange. 

1095. VANITY. 

2. Vanity does not perceive even when it is 
most openly laught at. 

1095. INTOXICATION. 

yi Intoxication discerns nothing. 

1097. 
'Tis monstrous labor when we wash the braia 
Till it grows duller. 

109S. ACCOMMODATION ofCHARACTER, 

In some things only, be a child o' the Time, 

1099. power— jealous. 

§ Such Jealousy there is in power, that oft 
A lower place may make too great an act. 

1100. fame — too much; dangerous to one in an 

inferior Command. 
Better to leave undone than by our deed 
Acquire too high a fame. 

1101. 
Who does i' the wars more than his Captain can 
Becomes his Captain's Captain. 

1102. DISCRETION. 

Discretion's that 
Without the which a Soldier and his sword- 
Grants scarce distinction. ]u 



122 SHAKESPERIAN {A,.tony a»i 

Cleojiatra,^ 

1103. ENVY. 

Let not Envy make 
That Virtue, best supporter of such Love, 
The ram to batter it. 

1 104. eye — it's sweet and tender expression. 
The April in the eye is Love's sweet Spring 
Of showers and sunshine; each by union sweeter* 

1105. AMBITION. 

Ambition, 
The Soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss 
Than gain which darkens him. 

110o\ love — it's tender Hesitation. 
Moments there are, and those most precious, when 
The tongue will not obey the heart, nor can 
The heart inform the tongue. [cheiisht. 

1107. love should be well Jixt and delicately 
Let your best Love draw to that point which seeks 
Best to preserve it. 

1108. grie f — tk e body synrpath izes with it. 
X The Mind oppresst with Woe, the Body creeps : 
It's station and it's motion are as one: 

It shews a semblance rather than a life; 
A statue than a breather. 

1109. honor. 

If we lose our Honor, 
We lose ourselves. [as to both. 

1110. both ^o blame — never equally correct 
Between two parties opposite, the faults 

Can never be so equal that the judgment, 
Fully informed, can draw no line between them. 

111L EXVY. 

There are those who will invite others to the 
Peril who will not suffer them to share in the 
Glory of the action. 



fitaMjr ««f APHORISMS. 123 

Cleofiatra.] 

1112. FORTITUDE and RESIGNATION'. 

Be you not troubled with the time which drives 
O'er your contentment strong necessities, 
But let determined things to destiny 
Hold, unbewail'd, their way. 

1113. PATIENCE. 

Be ever known to Patience. 

1114*. Celerity — the indolent ill-judges of it. 
Celerity is never more admir'd 
Than by the negligent. 

1115. HEPROOF. 

1TThe 111 may sometimes give a good rebuke 
Which might have well become the best of Men, 

1116. confidence — rash to be avoided. 

V IGI L A N CE N AVAL. 

Trust not to rotten planks. 

1117. news — crisis, 

K In a great crisis of the Fate of Nations, 

With News the Time's in labor : and throws forth 

JJach minute some. 

1118. age and youth. 

^ White hairs 
Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them 
For fear and doating. 

1119. fortitude triumphs ewer fortune** 

Fortune knows 
We scorn her most when most she threatens blows. 

1120. fidelity triumphs oxer fortune. 

He that can endure 
To follow with allegiance a fallen Lord, 
Does conquer him that did his master conquer, 
^nd earns a Name in story. 

* A }a Fortitude succombe la Fortune. v „ 

M 2 



124 SHAKESPERIAN [Antony and 

Cleopatra^ 

1121. wisdom triumphs over fortune. 
Wisdom and Fortune combating together, 
If that the former dare but what it can, 
No chance may shake it. 

1122. courtiers — their Attachments. 

§ Once comes the stormy Trial* 
Against the blown Rose they will stop their nose 
Who knelt unto the Buds. 

1123. ADVERSITY. 

© Adversity, where it o'erpowers the Mind 
That suffers it, turns courage into rashness ; 
And those quick feelings, in a prosperous hour 
Tender and soft, into fell cruelty. 

1124?. judgement — of the most part enslaved 
by external circumstances. 

Men's Judgments are 
A parcel of their fortunes: and things outward 
Do draw the inward quality after them 
To suffer all alike. 

1125. self-desertion a Prelude to General, 

That will be left 
Which leaves itself, 

1126. passion. 

Passion makes the Will 
Lord of the Reason. 

1127. couiiAG e — provoke it not in Extremities* t 
'Tis better playing with a Lion's Whelp 

Than with an old one dying. 
1128. vice hardens itself more and more in progress. 

When we in our viciousness grow hard, 
Th£ wise Gods seal our eyes, warp our clear 
Make us adore our errors. [judgments, 



[A*tony and APHORISMS. 1525 

Cleopatra.] 

1129. cowardice borrows courage of 
To be furious [despair. 
Is to be frighted out of fear : in that mood 
The Dove will peck the Ostrich. 

1130. success animates. 

Success breeds confidence of more Success*. 

1131. courage — true, is armed by reason; 

false, destroys Reason. 
When Valour preys on Reason, 
It eats the sword it fights with. 

1132. asger always exposes to danger those 

Never Anger [whom it goverfis. 
Made good guard for itself. 

1133. pleasure in what we do the Spring of 

CELERITY. 

To business that we love we rise betime, 
And go to't with delight. 
1 134. g en 1 us— -for the most part early discovered. 
The Spirit of a Youth 
That means to be of note begins betime. 

1135". inequality of temper. 
Wiien Reason and when Virtue comfort not, 
Bat Passion rules the Man, such sufferers 
111 bear Adversity: such, without cause, 
Are valiant and dejected ; as by starts 
Their fretted fortunes give them hopes or fears, 

1135. g a a n d z u r — cult ted reluct an ily. 
The Sou! and B^dy grieve not more in parting 
Than Great&ess going on. 

1137. DEATH. 

Death can be paid but once. 

* Possunt qwia po§se vidfiitur. VI EG. 

M 3 



125 SIJAKESPERIAN {Antony and 

Cleojiatra*] 

1138. FORTITUDE. 

J* Affliction often hath no earthly Friend 
But Resolution. 

1139. RESIGNATION subdues CALAMITY, 

Bid that welcome 
Which seems to punish us, and we punish it, 
deeming to bear it lightly. 
1140. grief — should be proportioned to the cause. 
X Our size of sorrow, 
Proportion^ to it's cause, must be as great. 

1141. w 1 s 11 e §— folly of perpetually forming 
Wishers were ever Fools. [them. 

1142. SUICIDE. 

It is Sin 
To rush into the secret house oi Death, 
Ere Death dare come to us. [dulged Errors. 

1143. conscience sometimes corrects long in- 
Nature will oft compel us to lament 

Our most persisted deeds. 

1144. error — the best have some. 

X Their Nature mixes with the best 
Some faults, to mark them Men *, 

1145. calamity extreme^ ra rely flatters itself. 
He does not greatly care to be deceived 

Who has no use for trusting. 

1146. pomp imposes on the Weak. 
How Pomp is followed ! 

1 147. thought — should be free. 
M ake not your thoughts your prisons. 

1148. instrumen t — efficacy of a weak* 

How poor an instrument 
May do a noble deed. 

* Vitus nemo sine nascitur : optimus Hie 

^ui mmhuis orgetur. HOR. 



[Trollus and APHORISMS. 12f 

Cress i da.] 

1149. WOMAN. 

A Woman is a dish for the Gods, if the Devil 
Dress her not. 

1150. events — Great. 

High Events 
Strike those that make them. 

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA'. 

1151. TIME. 

Time must friend or end. 

1152. hope deceitful. 

The ample proposition that Hope makes 
In all designs begun on Earth below, 
Fails in the promis'd largeness. 

1153. ? rut> ex CE false. 

§ There is a Folly which is sauc'd with Discretion. 

1154. success — trite is final. 

Things won are done. 

1155. DISAPPOINTMENT. 

Checks and Disasters 
Grow in the veins of Actions highest rear'd ; 
As knots by the conflux of meeting sap, 
Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain 
Tortive and errant from his course of growth. 

1156. checks are trials. 

Checks are protective trials of high Heaven 
To find persistive constancy in men. 
The fineness of which metal is not found 
In Fortune's love : for then the bold and coward. 
The wise and fool, the artist and unread. 
The hard and soft, seem ail affiti'd and kin: 
But in the wind and tempest of her frown, 
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, 
Puffing at all, minnows the light away ; 



128 SHAKESPERIAN [*«&» a „i- 

Cressida.] 

And what hath mass or matter by itself, 
Lies rich in virtue and unmingled *. 

1157. 

In the reproof of Chance 
Lies the true Proof of Men. 

1158. 

The Sea being smooth, 
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail 
Upon her patient breast, making their way 
With those of nobler birth : 
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage 
The gentle Thetis, and anon behold 
The strong ribb'd bark thro' liquid mountains cut, 
Bounding between the two moist elements 
Like Perseus' horse ! Where's then the saucy boat 
Whose weak untirnber'd sides but even now 
Co-rival'd greatness ? Either to harbour fled, 
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so 
Doth Valour's shew and valour's Worth divide 
In storms of Fortune : For in her ray and bright- 
ness f 
The Herd hath more annoyance by the Breeze 
Than by the Tyger : but when the splitting wind 
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, 
And flies flee under shade, — why then the thing of 

courage, 
As rouz'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize, 
And with an accent tun'd in self-same key, 
Returns to chiding Fortune. 
1159. order celestial. 
. The Heavens themselves, the Planets, and this 
Observe degree, priority, and place ; [Earth 

# Quadrisyllable t The §rize or Breeze Fly 5 the Gad-fly# 



pTruk* and APHORISMS. 129 

Cressida.] 

Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, 
Office and custom in all line of order ; 
And therefore is the glorious planet Sol * 
In noble eminence enthroned and sphered 
Am i"d the other. 

Il60. order — political. 

Degree being vizarded, 
The unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask. 

1.161. 

O when Degree is shak'd, 
Which is the ladder of all hi^h designs, 
The Enterprize is sick ! 

1162. 

How could communities, 
Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, 
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, 
The primogeniture and due of birth, 
Prerogative of age, crowns; sceptres, laurels, 
But by degree, stand in authentic place ? 

1163. order universal. 
Take but degree away ; untune that string ; 
And hark what discord follows ! each thing meets 
In meer oppugnancy : The bounded waters 
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, 
And make a sop of all this solid Globe : 
Strength should be Lord of Imbecility; 
And the rude Son should strike his Father dead. 
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong 
(Between whose endless jar Justice resides) 
Should lose their names, and so should justice too. 
Then every thing includes itself in power; 

* Here is more than a hint of the Copernican System. COPER* 
yifiUS died 1 j4S : 21 yeari before the Birth of SHAKESPEARE. 



130 SHAKESPERIAN pVdto and 

Cfcssida.l 

Power into will, will into appetite; 
And appetite, an universal wolf*, 
So doubly seconded with will and power, 
Must make perforce an universal prey, 
And last, eat up himself. 

J 164. 
§ In factious struggle for pre-eminence, 
Order is scorn'd. The General's disdain'd 
By him one step below : he by the next \ 
That next, by him beneath : so every step 
Exampled by the first face that is sick 
Of his superior, grows to an envious fever 
Of pale and bloodless emulation* 

1165. wisdom above fouce. 
There are who call Policy cowardice ; 
Count Wisdom as no member of the War ; 
Forestall prescience, and esteem no act 

But that of hand : — the still and mental parts 
That do contrive how many hands shall strike 
When fitness calls them on, and know, by measure- 
Of their observant toil, the Enemy's weight,. .. 
They call this, — bed-work mappery ; closet- W r ar. 
So that the Ram, that batters down the wall* 
From the great swing and rudeness of his poise, 
They place before his hand that made the engine, 
Or those that with the fineness of their souU 
By Reason guide it's execution. 

1166. commander unpopular. 

When that the General is not lik'd of the Hive, 
To whom the Foragers should all repair, 
What Honey is expected ? 

* This looks Tike a Grand Allegory in the RfJNIC Mythology I 
foncerning the Wolf LQK, the destroying, subdued at last by the 
?«noYating Principle. 



yrroVut md APHORISMS. 131 

iCrcssiia*} 
ll67* SELF-COMMENDATION. 

The worthiness of Praise distains his worth, 

If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth. 

1168. T raise from an enemy. 

What the repining Enemy commends, [transcends. 
That breath Fame blows; that praise, sole pure, 

1169. TPvUTH and honesty open. 
What is meant fairly may aloud be spoken. 

1170. — § The truly virtuous 

Will hold his honor higher than his ease ; 
Seek to do Good more than he fears the Peril* 

1171.. LOVE. 

X But rarely will that heart of value prove, 
That is not, hath not, will not be in Love. 

1172. success particular; passes for an omtn 

of general. 
§ Frequently, in the popular eye, success^ 
Although particular, shall give a scantling 
Of good or bad unto the general. 
And in such indexes there will be seen 
The baby figure of the Giant-Mass, 
Of things to come at large. 

1173. consent General makes it's election 

according to merit. 
Choice, being the mutual act of all our Souls, 
Makes Merit her election. 

1174. contrast. 

The lustre of the better shall exceed 
By shewing the worst first. 

1175. folly , unconscious. 
The Fool knows not himself. 

1176. 

Keep where there is Wit stirripg ; and leave 
the faction of Foolfc 



122 SHAKESPEPJAN [7WA» and 

Cressida.~\ 

1177 • security — Confiden ce ofit> dangerous . 
The wound of Peace is Surety, 
Surety secure; but modest Doubt is calFd 
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches 
To the bottom of the worst. [Enemies. 

1178. reason and argument — their natural 
§ None more disposed sharply to bite at Reasons 
Than those most empty of them. 

1 1 79. excellence hath it's positive w orth. 
Value dwells not in particular will : 

It holds his estimate and dignity 

As well wherein 'tis precious of itself 

As in the prizer. 

1180. MARRIAGE. 

§ Who takes to-day a TFife, and his election 
Is led on by the conduct of his Will, 
His Will enkindled by his eyes and ears, 
Two traded Pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores 
Of Will and Judgement — -how may he avoid, 
Although his Will distaste what it elected, 
The Wife he chose ? There can be no evasion 
To blench from this and to stand firm by Honor* 

1181. p refer ex ce extravagant. 

Tis mad Idolatry 
To make the service greater than the God. 

11S2. possession n ot a reason fo r Disregard, 
We turn not back the silks upon the merchant 
When we have soil'd them ; nor the remainder 
We do not throw in unrespective place [viand* 
Because we now are full. 

1183. INCONSTANCY. 

X§ Do not in haste 
The issue of your proper Wisdoms- rate i 



[Trollus and APHORISMS. 133 

Cressida.~\ 

Beggaring the Estimation which you priz'd 
Richer than Sea or Land. 

1184. Jt ass i o is an ill judge between Indivi- 

duals of NATIONS. 

K§ In private Quarrel, or pursuit of War 
Between contending Sovereignties, the blood 
Is mad indeed, if not Discourse of Reason*, 
Or fear of bad Success in a bad Cause 
Can qualify it's rage. 

1185. justice — not to be measured by event. 
We may not think the justness of each Act 
Such and no other than Event doth form itf. 

1186. w Alt Precipitate ; how reproachful. 

K§ Ear be it that there should be done among us 
Such things as might offend a sober judgement 
To fight for and maintain. Else might the World 
Convince of levity our Acts and Councils 
In things of dearest moment and concern. 

1187. youth. 

+ t Young men have been thought 
Unfit to hear Moral Philosophy: 
Not that they want it not; but that their Passions 
Do not regard it. 

1188. passion a sophistic Reasoner. 

1T The Reasons which a Mind blinded by Passion 
Is eager to alledge, do more conduce 
To the hot fury of distemper' d blood, 
Than to make up a free determination 
? Twixt Right and Wrong. 

1189- PLEASURE fl^REVEXGE — deaf. 

Pleasure and Revenge 

This Phrase is from AMYOT. ' Discours de Raison.* 
f From his favorite OVID : - - - " Careat successibus ogtt-- 
" Quisquis ab eventu facta notandaputat.'* 



13* SHAKESPERIAN [Troths and 

Cressida.] 

Have ears more deaf than Adders to the voice 
Of any true decision. 
1190. injustice canpleadno prescription, 
To persist 
In doing wrong extenuates not wrong: 
But makes it much more heavy. 

1191. justice— the Voice of nature. 

Nature craves 
All Dues be rendered to their Owners 41 . 

1192. husband and wife. 
What nearer Debt in all Humanity 

Than Wife is to the Husband ? [la w* 

1193. passions, disorderly ; under the Curb of 
There is a Law in each well ordered Nation 

To curb those raging Appetites that are 
Most disobedient and refractory f. 

1194. polly and ignorance the Great Curse 

of Mankind. 
The common Curse of Mankind is Folly and 
Ignorance. 

1195. passion, unruli); a dreadful Curse. 

1f No severer imprecation against a Child than 

this : Discipline come not near thee ; and let thy 

Passions be thy direction till thy Death J. 

J 1 96. folly should be powerless against wisdo m 4 

§ It is hardly a strong composure that a Fool 

can disunite. 

11 97. friendship unstable between the unwise. 
The Amity that Wisdom knits not Folly may 
soon untye. 

* SUUM CUTQtfE. 

t Oppida caepenmt munire ; et ponere Leges ; 

Ne quis Fur esset, ne Latro, neu quis Adulter. HOR. 

t But what would they deserve who should make it ! 



[Troths and APHORISMS. 135 

Cress i 'da. ] 

119S. talents misapplied. 

Virtuous Faculties 
Not virtuously held by those who bear them, 
Are like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish : 
Likely to rot untasted. 

1199. pride — unwise and unjust. 

Over-proud 
Is under-honest: in self assumption greater 
Than in the note of judgement. 

1200. INFLEXIBILITY. 

The Elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy.; 
His legs are for necessity, not for flexure. 

1201. ACTIVITY. 

A stirring Dwarf we do allowance give 
Before a sleeping Giant. 

1202. PRIDE. 

Why should a Man be proud ? 

1203. 
He that's proud eats up himself. 

1204. 
Pride is his own glass ; his own trumpet ; 
His own chronicle. 

1205. SELF-COMMENDATION. 

Whatever praises itself 
But in the deed, devours the deed i' the praise* 

1206. importance — Affectation of it. 
Things small as nothing for request's sake only 
We often make important. 

1207. pride passionate and restless. 

Imagined worth 
Holds in the blood such swoln and hot discourse^ 
That 'twixt the mental and the active parts 
Commotion rages battering self 'gainst self, 
V 2 



136 SHAKESPERIAN [Troii.s a „a 

Cressida.~\ 

120S. pride not to be fed by submission. 
Shall the proud Lord 
That bastes his arrogance with his own seam, 
And never suffers matter of the World 
Enter his thought, save such as doth revolve 
And ruminate himself, — shall he be worshipt 
Of that we hold an Idol more than he ? 

1209. faults — we blame our own in another* 
The Raven chides blackness. 

1210. virtues — not our own. 

© Oft where the Mind is of a sweet composure, 
Much of the praise is to our Father due, 
To her who gave us suck, and our Instructors. 
These Benefactors praise. But chief the Heavens. 

1211. woman — unkindness to an amiable. 
§ To make a sweet Lady sad is an Offence in- 

1212. activity, [deed. 
Light boats sail swift; though greater hulks draw 

1213. expectation. [deep, 
§ Expectation whirls us round. 

1214. WORDS. 
Words pay no debts. 

1215. fear reverses appearances. 
Fears make Devils of Cherubim. 

1216. fear prudent, better than rash Confidence. 
Blind Fear that seeing Reason leads, finds safer 

footing than blind Reason stumbling without Fear. 

1217. 
To fear the worst oft cures the worst. 

1218. COWARDICE «/eC^COURAGE. 

They that have the voice of Lions and the act 
of Hares are Monsters. 



[totfif and APHORISMS, 1,37 

Cressida.~\ 

1219. EXPERIENCE, 

Allow us as we prove. 

1220. reward — due only to Merit. 
Let the head go bare 'till Merit crown it. 

1221. f act to be trusted ; not possibility. 
No Perfection in reversion shall have a praise 

in present. 

1222. 
We will not name Desert before his birth. 

1223. merit — neither to be anticipated nor 
v exaggerated. 

§ Name not desert before it's birth : and being 
born, let it's addition be humble. 

1224. constancy of deliberate choice. 
Those who are long in wooing are constant 

being won. 

1225. sincerity — not loquacious. 
Few words to fair Worth. 

1226. thoughts ungovern'd. 

H Thoughts are oft like unbridled children, 
Grown too headstrong for their Mother. 

1227. SELF-DESERTION. 

§ Who shall be true to us, when we are untrue 
to ourselves. 

1228. wisdom considerate. 

§ Well know they what they speak that do 
speak wisely. 

1229. love and constancy — the greatest 

earthly Happiness. 
§ Virtue and bliss it is in M*an or Woman, 
To feed for age the lamp and flames of Love ; 
To keep their Constancy in plight and youth, 
OuUiving Beauty's outward, 
n 3 



138 SHAKESPERIAN [7™ff« W 

Cressida.'] 

1230. emulation virtuous. 

§ Virtuous fight, 
When Right with Right wars to excel in Right! 

1231. love and virtue. 

5f Virtue and Love are Truth's simplicity : 
Simple as Infancy. 

1232. HABIT. 

f Hard is it to sequester us from that 
Which Time, Acquaintance, Custom and Condi- 
Endears, as most familiar to our Nature, [tion 

1233. promises deceitful. 

When we promise Good 
We hardly are sincere : or we are prompt 
To give a little present benefit 
Out of the many registered in promise. 

1234. medicine, moral as well as physical \ 

should be palateable. 
? Tis doubly good to find that medicine 
Which he who needs shall have desire to drink. 

1235. pride it's own mirror. 

Pride hath no other glass 
To shew itself but Pride. 

1236\ — — — nourisht by Submission. 
Supple knees 
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 

1237. power — Loss of it is Loss of homage. 
"Vis certain Greatness once falPn out with Fortune 
Must fall out with Men too : What the declined is 
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others 
As feel in his own fall. 

1 23S. t ii E M V ltit ude of all Ranks worships 
Circumstances. 

Men, like Butterflies, 
ihew not their mealy wings but to the Summer. 



ITrcllus and APHORISMS. 139 

CressidaA 

1239. honor vulgar — rests in Externals. 

In the World's base judgement, 
There's not a man for being simply man 
Hath a;r^ Honor; but's honor'd for those honoiS 
That are without him; as place, riches, favor, 
Prizes of accident as oft as merit; 
Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, 
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too, 
Do one pluck down another, and together 
Die in the fall. 

1*240. public opinion" influences our self- 
opinion. 
The man — how dearly ever hail'd, 
How much in having or without or in, 
Cannot make boast to have that which he hath, 
Nor feels not what he owes but by Reflection: 
As when his Virtues shining upon others 
Heat them, and they retort the heat again 
To the first giver*. 

1241. opinion external, suggests to most Men 

always, and to Philosophers sometimes? 

how to think of themselves. 
Speculation turns not to itself, 
'Till it hath travell'd and is married there 
Where it may see itself. 

1242. FAME — the MIRROR of EXCELLENCE. 

The Beauty that is borne within the face 
The bearer knows not ; it commends itself 
To others' eyes : nor doth the eye itself 
(That most pure spirit of sense) behold itself, 
Not going from itself; but eye to eye oppos'd 
Salutes each-other with each-other's form. 

* This is true of all except very strong, pure, and philosophic Mini?, 



146 SHAKESPERIAN [Troilus and 

Crdssida."^ 

1243. o pin- ion Popular — an unsafe Measure of 
What things there are [worth, 

Mo_st abject in regard and dear in use ! 
What things again most dear in the esteem 
And poor in worth ! 

1244* audacity and negligence. 

O Heaven ! what some men do, 
While some men leave to do. 

1245. success — inequality of 

How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, 
While others play the idiots in her eyes ! 

1246. FLATTERY. 

How one man eats into another's pride, 
While pride is fasting in his wantonness. 

£247. time brings oblivion a/" benefits. 
Time hath a wallet at his back, 
Wherein he puts alms for Oblivion, 
A great siz'd monster of Ingratitudes ; 
Those scraps are good deeds past : which are de> 
As fast as they are made ; forgot as soon [vour'd 
As done. 

1248. honor only maintain d by Perseverance. 
Perseverance keeps Honor bright. 

1249. desert living, cannot support itself an 

past Actions. 
To have done is to hang quite out of fashion, 
Like rusty mail in monumental mockery. 

1250. virtue ever progressive *. 

O let not Virtue seek 
Remuneration for the thing it was: 
For Beaut};, Wit, high ]3ii th, Desert in seryi$£j 

* Hon jirogrctU est vegredi. 



[Trollus and APHORISMS. 141 

Cressida.'j 

Love, Friendship, Charity, are subjects all 
To envious and calumniating Time. 

1251. MANKIND ALL BRETHREN. 

One touch of Nature makes the whole World kin. 

1252. appearances — the World the Fool of 
§ Men give to Dust that is a little gilt [these* 
More laud than they will give to Gold o'erdusted. 

1253. honor and virtue — their Path straight, 
but difficult. 
Honor travels in a streight so narrow 
Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path, 

1254. presence — it 's undue Influence. 
The present eye praises the present object. 

1255. EMULATION. 

Emulation hath a thousand Sons 
That one by one pursue. 

1256. foresight — Political. 

The Providence that's in a watchful state 
Knows almost every grain of Plutus gold ; 
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deep ; 
Keeps pace with thought ; and, almost, like the 

Gods 
Does e'en those thoughts unveil in their dumb 
There is a mystery in the Soul of State [cradles. 
Which hath an operation more divine 
Than breath or pen can give expression. 

1257. man and woman — their characteristic 

Manners not to be confounded. 
A Wojnan impudent and mannish grown 
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate Man. j 

1258. pride zvith ignorance, 
H Stalks about like a Peacock. 

125p. 
H Raves and says nothing. 



142 SHAKESPERIAN \Troihs «„d 

Cressida>~\ 
1260. PRIDE With IGNORANCE. 

K Ruminates confusedly. 

1261. 
X Bites his lip with an affectation of politic regard. 

1262. 
X Professes not answering ; and thinks speaking 
is for Beggars. 

1263. MOTION. 

Things in motion sooner catch the eye 
Than what stirs not*. 

1264. self-injury — hardest, to he remedied,, 
Those Wounds heal ill that men do give them- 

1265. omission — how dangerous. [selves. 
Omission to do what is necessary 

Seals a Commission to a blank of danger : 
And Danger, like an Ague* subtly taints 
Even then when we sit idly in the Sun, 

1266. COWARDICE. 

>£ Is ambiguously boastful, 

1267. TRADl. 

X Chapmen too oft 
Dispraise the thing that they desire to buy, 
And overpraise the thing they mean to sellf. 

1268. love and constancy. 

X Time and Force 
May do the body what extremes they can : 
But the strong base and building of true Love 
Is as the very Centre of the Earth, 
Drawing all things to it. 

* Changing the direction of the visual ray has the same effect as 
tnoving the object. A great practical Astronomer has recommended 
tiiis method by moving the Telescope a little to assist in distinguishing 
feint telescopic objects. This has been experienced in viewing the 
C4pMET (I807) by twilight. 

$ Lftut&t veaalei qua* vult extmdere merc'es. BOH, 



[Tragus and APHORISMS. 143 

Cressida.] 

120'9. LOVE ifs PURITY, 

Love admits no qualifying dross. 

1270. waste never to be made. 

Let us cast away nothing, 
For we may live to have need of it. 

1271. expostulation — should be mildo 
We must use Expostulation kindly. 

1272. love and g rief proportional. 

Kt Those who can temporize and play with Lovq 
And bring it to a weak and lukewarm temper, 
Easily give their Grief a like allay. 

1273. CAREFULNESS. 

Cast away nothing*. 

127-i. fidelity. 
Be true of Heart. 

127o. affectiox excessive. 

What we love too much, 
The Heavens correcting this our zeal, more strong 
Than our devotion toward them, take from usf. 

1276. farewell. 

K§ Severe calamity 
Puts by leave-taking. 

1277. jealousy m the better Sense. 
There is a kind of godly Jealousy ||. 

1278. fault s — bordering on Virt ue. 

There are 
Faults, nigh to be accounted virtuous Sins. 

1279. accomplishments. 

XI To sing, to dance, 
To sweeten conversation — all these gifts 
Where Virtue is, may be most virtuous ; 

* Qather together the Fragments, that nothing be lost. LLC. 

t PARNELL's Hermit. 

H I am jealous over you with a godly Jealousy. CORINTPL 



144 SHAKESPERIAN {Trail* and 

Cress ida.] 

And yet tbey have a sly discursive Devil 
That tempts most Cunningly, 

1280. TEMPTATION. 

X Be not tempted. 

1281. falsehood artful ; truth simple. 
Falsehood with Craft fishes for great opinions ; 
Truth catches Honor with Simplicity. 

1282. change, moral — if s Signs. 

A changing Heart changes in Manners too. 
1283. viiY siogxomy/ ro?nJir and Appearance. 
XX 'Tis often seen 
A virtuous or a vicious Spirit looks out 
In every limb and motion of the Body. 

1284. reserve — often misconstruecL 
Q. Often, in great and self-collected Minds,. 
What seems like Pride is modest Courtesy. 

12S5. distraction. 

3. Too much blood and too little brain may be 
the cause of Distraction in some - r too much brain 
and too little blood in others. 

12S6\ PRESUMPTION. 

Sometimes we are Devils to ourselves : 
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, 
Presuming on their changeful potency. 

1287. knighthood — true. 
A true Knight is firm of word : 
Speaking in deeds ; and deedless in his tongue r 
Not soon provoked ; nor being provok'd, sooa 

calm'd : 
His heart and hand both open and both free; 
For what he has he gives, what thinks he shews : 
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty \. 
Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath. 



[Troilus and APHORISMS. 145 

Cressida.] 
1288. time past and future aliket obscure. 
What's past and what's to come is Strew'd with 
And formless ruin of Oblivion. [hulks 

1$,S£. LEERING. 

§ A man when he leers has generally more 
venom than a Serpent when he hisses, 

1290. BOASTING, 

To such as boasting shew their scars 
A mock;is due. 

1291. LOVE. 

Love is food for Fortune's topth. | 

1292. eye — it* s Influence . ' 
Our. Eye directs our Mind. 

1293. often . pexnidom. 

Minds sway'd by'Eye"s t are full of turpitude. 
1291. EQUIVOCATION. 

By giving a perverted sense to Facts, 

A Man may lie in, publishing the Truth*. 

1295. praye RS — Heaven disregards and abhors 
unjust^ 
The Gods are deaf to hqftand peevish : vows : * 
They are polluted offerings ; more.aJp.horr'd 
Than spotted livers krthe sacrifice. 

1 2 96. injus T i<g e. }$■ n ot g i: s, e h qs ity. 
Do not count it holy 
To hurt by being j.ust: it is as lawful 
Forus to count we give what's; gain'd by thefts, 
And rob in the behalf of charity f. 

1297. no n o r dearer than life. 
Life every man holds, flear ; but the brave man 
Holds Honor fair more precious dear than life. 

* I/>rd MANSFIELD use4,.ta quote a rem arable. instance oj^iiis- 
; \iu'\\ liberate ^od uon »c idem ju*uju. ciC. o« ufjt". 1. 
O 



H<> SHAKESPERIAN [Cpnbelinc. 

1298. SYMPATHY. 

One Bear will not bite another*. 

12Q9« revenge dissembles. 
Hope of Revenge oft hides our present woe* 

3 300. oaths criminal are void. 
It is the purpose that makes strong the Vow ; - 
Vows to a guilty purpose must not hold. 

1301. HONOR. 

Our Honor keeps the weather f of our Fate. 

1302. CONFIDENCE. 

There is a Credence in the Heart, 
An Esperance so obstinately strong, 
That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears. 

CY31BELINE. ! 

1303. EXCELLENCE ^rtfe/hm* HEAVEN. 

Jewels may be purchased or given, 
But all by which we' excel is gift of Heaven^ 
1304-. reliance ill-founded. 

Whatshalt thou expect 
To be depender on a thing that leans ? 

1305. content. 

Blessed be those, 
Jlowmean soe'er, that have their honest wills, 
Which seasons Comfort. [and just as visual. 

1 306. discernment moral should be as quick 

X Hath Nature given us eyes 
To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop ' 
Of sea and land : Which can distinguish 'twixt 
"i he fiery Orbs above, and the twin'd stones 
I pon the humbled beach I And can we not 

*■ Inter se, mmquam placidie, bene convenit Uraia. JUV. 

•f Weather, or Weather-gage j a *ea-tenn. Our Honor is ftfcwter of 
cur fate. 



Ct/mbeline.] APHORISMS. ffl 

Partition make with spectacles so precious 
Twixt fair and foul ? 

1307 apprehension worse than certainty. 
Doubting that things go ill often hurts more 
Than to be sure they do : For certainties 
Either are* past remedy, or timely knowing 
The remedy then born. 

1308. SLEEP. 

Sleep is the ape of Death. 

1309. success gives confidence. 
Winning will put any man into courage. 

1310. BRITAIN. 

Britain is a World by itself. 

]311# In the World's volume 

Our Britain seems as of it, not as in it; 
In a great pool a Swan's nestf. . 

1312. afflictions— beneficial. 
Some Griefs are med'cinable. 

1313. station influences our Estimate. 
It is place which lessens and sets off. 

1314. country life — W 's Independence. 

The rustic life 
Is nobler than attending for a check : 
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silks. 

1315. town LIFE. 

Did men but know the City's Usuries, 
And feel them knowingly: the art o' the Court, 
As hard to leave as keep ; whose top to climb 
Is certain falling, or so slippery that 

* " Either are" three syllables in the time of two. 

+ <?* Socrates to Alcibiades of Attica ; and Scipio Africanus, m the 



148 SHAKESPERIAN {CymMine. 

The fear's as bad as falling : the' toil o' the War, 
A pain that only seems to seek out danger 
I' the name of Fame and Honor, which diesi' the 
And hath as oft a slanderous Epitaph, [War, 

As record of fair act ; nay, many times 
Doth ill deserve by doing well, what's worse 
Must curt'sy at the censure— they would prize 
A life retir'd and free. 

13l6\ poverty — it's security. 
The poor doth fear no poison* which attends 
In place of gj'eater state. 

1317. NATURE. 

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature. 

1318. slander, [tongue 
Slander's edge is sharper than the sword : her 
Outvenoms ail the worms of Nile ; her breath 
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belye 

All corners of the world ; Kings, Queens, and 

States, 
Maids, Matrons:- — nay, the secrets of the Grave 
This viperous Slander enters. 

1319- hypocrisy. 
Artful Hypocrisy detected makes 
True honest men seem false: Deceitful weeping 
Will scandal many a holy tear: take pity 
From most true wretchedness. 

1320. SUICIDE. 

Against self-slaughter 
There is a prohibition so divine, 
That cravens our weak hands. 

1321. credulity. 

Poor Fools believe false Teachers. 

* Nulla aconitabibuntur 
Fictifibus. JUV, \ 



CpnbeJine.] APHORISMS/ 14Q 

1322. c r i m e — ?nost injurious to ^criminal. 
Though those that are betray'd 
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the Traitor 
Stands in worst case of woe. 

1323. words. 
Words are oft strokes, 

1324. calamity — nothing safe to it. 
Foundations fly the wretched. 

1325. crimes — vicious abuse of power and 

prosperity among the greatest. 
To lapse in fulness 
Is sourer than to lie for need ; and Falsehood 
Is worse in Kings than Beggars *. 

1326. famine — bold. 

Famine, 
Ere clean it o'er throw Nature, makes it valiant. 

1327. cowardice — the effect of luxury . 
Plenty and Peace breed Cowards. 

1328. hardship ^e Nurse o/exergy. 

Hardness ever 
-Of hardiness is motherf. 

1329. appetite. 

Our stomachs will make what's homely savoury |j. 

1330. sleep best procured by labour. 

Weariness 
Can snore upon the flint; when resty Sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. 

1331. treasures — all worthiest in comparison 

to those o/'min d. 
J Than forfeit Virtue, Liberty, and Honor, 

* The noble saying of John of France, " that if Truth were banished 
all other places in the Earth, she ought still to find a dwelling in the 
hearts of Kings." 
1 t Curis .'.cviens mortalia c*rda. VIRG. 

{j Hunger the best sauce. Optimum obsonium Fames. 
os 



^>0 SHAKESPEARIAN [Cymbclinc, 

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt ! 
As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those 
"Who worship dirty Gods. 

1332. station not the proper measure of men , 

O Measure not good Minds 
By the rude place they live in. 

1333. FASTING. 

Discourse is heavy, fasting. 

1334. DEATH. 

Clay and clay differs in dignity, 
'Whose dust is both alike. 

1335. INSOCIABILITY. 

Society is no comfort 
To one not sociable. 

1336. cowardice and baseness. 
Cowards father Cowards and base things sire 

1337. nature &m« — hove mixt. [base*. 
Nature hath meal and bran ; contempt and grace, 

1338. COURTIERS. 

Courtiers say ail's savage but at Court. 

1339. EXPERIENCE Opposed to REPORT. 

Experience — oh! how thou disprov'st Report! 

* 1340. THREATS. 

G Wear not your dagger in your mouth. 

1341. respect none real but to wisdom and 

VIRTUE. 

K Those "whom we reverence those we fear— the 
13452. fear. [irise. 

Defect of judgement 
Is oft the cause of Fearf. 

> * On the contrary, " Fortes creantur fortibus k bonis.** But on both 
aidcs how many exceptions. There are fewer to the effect of Education. 
DoCtrina nam vim promovet insitam, 
Rectique Cultus pectora roborant. HOR. 

f Fear is but' the betraying of the succours which Reason affords. 

WISDOM. 



Cymbeline.] APHORISMS. lil 

1343. rashness to he avoided. 

Seek not for danger where there is no profit. 

1344. JOYfl«rfsoRROW for trifles— witwrthij of 
Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, [m a^. 
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys, 

1345. MELANCHOLY. 

O Melancholy! 
Who ever yet could sound thy bottom ? Find 
The ooze ? Or shew what coast thy sluggish car- 
Might'st easil'est harbour in ? [rack* 

1346. sourow feigned— how contemptible. 
Notes of sorrow out of tune are worse 
Than Priests and Fanes that lie. 

134/. griefs — the greater cure the less \ 
Great griefs medicine the less, 

1348. DEATH. 

Thersites* body is as good as Ajax, 
When neither is alive. 

1349. eye — the Judgement may deceive it. 

Our very eyes 
Are sometimes, like our judgements, blind. 

1350. adversity sometimes a step to prospe- 
Some falls are means the happier to rise. [rity. 

1351. fortune. 

Fortune f brings in someboats that are not steer d, 

1352. commands — lawful on ly to be obeyed. 
Every good Servant does not all commands, [it. 

1353. guilt — better to die than to live increasing 
Some are snatch' d hence for little faults: that's 

Love 
To have them fall notrjore: some are permitted 

*" A heavy vessel of bur t ben.' '» WARBURTON. This emendation 
from " care" 'is very happy ; or it might be " bark." 
f There is really no snch power. Sed nos 

Te faeimus, Fortuna, Deam. JUV. 



152 SHAKESPERIAN [King Lear. 

To second ills with ills, each elder worse, 
And make them dreaded to the doer's thrift. 

1354. punishment misplaced. 
To be beaten for Loyalty excites to Treason. 



KING LEAR. 

1355. virtue undaunted. 

Think'st thou Duty shall have dread to speak, 
When power to Flattery bows ? 

1356. SINCERITY. 

To plainness Honor's bound, 
When Majesty stoops to Folly. 
1357. words should have corresponding actions. 
Good Effects should spring from Words of Love. 

1358. diffidence means better than it says. 
K§ There is a tardiness in honest Nature 
Which often leaves the history unspoke 
That it intends to do. 

1359* time the Detector of falsehood. 
Yime shall unfold what plaited Cunning hides, 
Who coverd faults at last with shame derides. 

1360. rules o/'life. 
Serve him truly that will put you in trust. 

1361. 
Love him that is honest. 

1362, 
Converse with him that is wise and savs little, 

1363. 
Fear judgement. 

1364. repentance too late. 
Woe, that too late repents ! 

1365. INGRATITUDE— filial. 

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted Fiend, 



King Lear.] APHORISMS. 153 

More hideous when thou shew'st thee in a Child 
Than the Sea-monster. 

1366. 

The revenging Gods 
? Gainst Parricides do all their thunders bend* 

136/. 

Filial Ingratitude ! 
Is it not as the mouth should tear the hand 
For lifting food to't ? 

1368. 
That Nature which contemns it's Origin 
Cannot be border'd certain in itself. 
^ 1369. 

She that herself will sliver and disbranch 
From her material sap, perforce must wither 
And come to deadly use. 

1370. 
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless Child ! 

1371. CONFIDENCE and DISTRUST*. 

Safer to fear too far than trust too far. 

1372. ANTIPATHY. 

Contraries hold Antipathy. 

1373. flattery disguised, 

A kind of knaves there is which in their plainness 
Harbour more craft and more corrupted ends 
Than twenty silly ducking observants 
That stretch their duties nicely. 

1374. goodness no assurance of prosperity. 
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. 

* N#!pc kul ^s^vu<r cc7ncr]eiv. Ag$(>ct 

^CCVJCC *]oiv (pfKVW, EPICHARM. 



154 SHAKESPERIAN [King Lear. 

1375. misery ^rone fo credulity. 

Nothing almost 
Sees miracles but Misery. 

1376. remedy rather than complaint. 

Seek to give losses 
Their remedies* 

1377. offence not to be taken lightly. 
All's not Offence that Indiscretion finds 

And Dotage terms so. v.r 

1378. command will not bear division. 

How in one house 
Should many people under two commands 
Hold amity*? 

1379. necessary — what is so not to be too 

strictly examined. 
O reason not the need : our basest beggars 
Are in the poorest thing superfluous : 
Allow not Nature more than Nature needs; 
Man's life is cheap as Beast's. 

1380. obstinacy must correct itself . 

To wilful men 
The injuries that they themselves procure 
Must be their schoolmasters. 

1381. necessity not nice. 
The art of our necessities is strange 
That can make vile things precious. 

1382. evil; the greatest absorbs the sense of 
Where'er the greater malady is fixt [others. 
The lesser is scarce felt. 

1383. sufferings; Great internal overpower 

the external Sensations. 

The tempest in the Mind 

* Ko man can obey two Masters. LUC. 



King Lear.] APHORISMS. 15S 

Doth from- the senses take all feeling else, 
Save what beats there. 

1384. nicety the offspring of ease. 

When the Mind's free 
The Body's delicate. 

1385. pride should ham from affliction to 

benefit others by it's superfluities, 
Take physic, Pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel: 
That thou may'st shake the superfilm to them, 
And shew the Heavens most just. 

13S6. sympathy virtuous. 
When we our betters see bearing our woes, 
We scarcely think our sufferings our foes*. 

15 87. suffering solitary. 
Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the Mind, 
Leaving free things and happy shows behind. 
1388. suffering lightened by social 

SYMPATHY. 

Then doth the Mind much sufferance o'erskip, 
When Grief hath mates and bearing fellowship. 

1389. affliction most felt by contrast. 

To be worst, 
The lowest most dejected thing of fortune, 
Stands still in esperance ; lives not in fear: 
The lamentable change is from the best ; 
The worst returns to laughter. 

1390. safety comparative of an humble Sit l ua- 

Full oft 'tis seen [Hon* 

Our mean secures us; and our mere defects 
Prove our commodities. 

» Much of this generous spirit is manifest in CLERY's Journal of 
Louis XVI. 



156 SHAKESPERIAN [King Lear. 

1391. equality: it's just measure. 
Just Distribution should undo excess. 
And each man have enough *. 

139^. vice may obscure almost to extinction, or 
nearly reverse the Moral Sense. 
Wisdom and Goodness tc the vile seem vilef. 

1393. REST. 

Our foster nur-se of Nature is Repose. 

1394. appearances — external— our vicious 

I deference to them. 
Through tatter'd clothes small Vices do appear ; 
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. 
1395. 

, Plate Sins with gold, 
And the strong lance of Justice hurtless breaks J : 
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. 

1396. ki t .mor variable. 
Report is changeable. 

1397. experience awakes SUSPICION. 
The stung are jealous of the Adder. 

1 395. truth undesignedly spoken. 
Jesters do oft prove Prophets. 

1399- pleasures vicious — their Retribution. 
The Gods are just, and of our pleasant Vices 
Make instruments to scourge us. 

* In a just state of Society no one without his own fault should havfc 
les» than the common necessaries of Life, whi-le others can supply Tfoeifc 
out of their superfluity. HOUSSEAU a/id ALEMBEKT. • 

t To the pure all things are pure: but to<the profane and impious 
nothing is pure: but their understanding aiid conscience are denied. 

PAUL. J 

i Telum imbelle sine ictu. VIRG. 






Tempest.] APHORISMS. ISf 

1400, voice soft and sixeet — a characteristic 
qfjemale perfection. 
>£ A. Voice ever soft, 
Gentle and low, is excellent in Woman*, 



THE TEMPEST, 

1401. DEGENERACY. 

Good wombs have borne bad Sons. 

1402. books — their incalculable Value. 

A wise man prizes 
His Books above a Dukedom. 

1403. acquisition,— too eaAhi made is di*re- 

Too light winning ■ [gardecL 

Makes the prize light. 

1404. good to be set in counterpoise against 

Tis wise to weigh [evil, 

Our sorrow with our comfort. 

140o. SEEEP. 
Sleep seldom visits Sorrow : when it doth 
It is a comforter. 

1400. misery produces strange associations. 
Misery acquaints a man with strange companions. 

1407, pleasure just and honorable reconciles 

to PAIN. 

There be some sports are painful,, and, their la- 
Delight in them sets off. [hour 

1 40 8 . mean —nothing so ich ich is virtuous. 

Some kinds of baseness 
Are nobly undergone j" and most poor matters 
Point to rich- ends. 

* To even.- female Excellence, as to Music, Uie Heart of SHAKE' 
8PEARE ^as exquisitely attuned. 



158 SHAKESPERIAN [Tempest, 

1409. travellers more veracious than they 
are imagined. 

Travellers lie less 
Than fools at home condemn 'em *. 

141 f voluptuousnes s to be moderated. 
Do not give dalliance 
Too much the rein. 

1411. mind alone immortal. 
The cloud-capt towers ; the gorgeous palaces ; ] 
The solemn temples; the great globe itself j 
Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 
And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind. 
1 4 1 2 . m r t a l 1 TY — it's Enjoy ?nen ts h owjleeting. 
We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on ; and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

1413. forgiveness nobler than rev Etfo$, 

The rarer action is 
In Virtue than in Vengeance f. 

1414. MUSIC 

■X A solemn Air is the best comforter 
To an unsettled fancy. 

1415. griefs— let what is past be past, . 
Let us not burthen our remembrance with 
A heaviness that's gone. 

* This acute and candid observation has been verified in the instant* 
of Abyssinian BRUCE; and some paradoxical assertions in tbe«ldef 
PLINY modern Philosophy has established. 

t Quippe minuti 
Semper & inftrmi est animi exiguknse Voluntas 
VLTIO. JUf. 



{Mtmeoand APHORISMS. 15Q 

JuUit.] * 

ROMEO AND JULIET. 
14l6\ time — tedious in sorrow. 
Sad hours seem long. 

1417. love at first sight. [heal. 
Chance gave the wound which Time can never 

1418. L o v e — it's smiles not always to be trusted. 
Alas, that Love, so gentle in his view, 

Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof ! 

141 9* i>ovk overcomes all impediments. 
Stony limits cannot hold Love out. 

1420. LEVITY oflNEXPERIENCE. 

He jests at scars that never felt a wound* 

1421. CARICATURE. 

A curious eye doth quote deformities. 

1422. prowns unsuitable to a feast. 

Frowns 
Are an ill-beseeming semblance for a Feast. 

1423. DREAMS. 

Dreams are the children of an idle brain. 

1424. SLAVERY. 

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud. 

1425. nature/m// of beneficial powers, 
O mickle is the powerful grace that lies 

In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. 

1426. good in this state mixt wit k evil, and 

evil with good. 
Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live 
But to the earth some special good doth give ;„ 
Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. 

1427- 
Virtue itself turns Vice, being misapplied*; 

* Irtsani sapiens nomcn ferat, sequus iniqui 

Ultra quam satis est Virtutem si petat ipsam. HOR. 



1G6 SH AKESPERIAN £*"*" ***■ 

Juliet.] 

And Vice sornetime's by action dignified. , 

1428. q u a l it i es opposite — their prox I m it y * 
Within the infant rind of a small flower 
Poison hath residence, and med'cine power** 

1429. sleep Jiiesfrom care. 
Where Care lodges Sleep will never lie. 

1430. INSINCERITY. 

Riddling Confession finds but riddling shrift 

1431. CEREMONY. 

Some cases may strain courtesy. 

1432. sentiment true — not loquacious. 
Conceit, 5 more rich in matter than in words, 
Brags of his substance, not of ornament. 

1433. riches — those are not true which are to- 

be counted. 
They are but beggars that can count their worth. 

1434. exile. 

Exile hath much more terror in his look 
Than Death. 

1435. philosophy the Solace of adversity. 
Philosophy is Adversity's sweet milk. 

14*36. mercy — if any be unworthy of it^ 

MURTHERERS. 

Mercy but murthers, pard'ning those that kill* 

1437. SORROW. 
Dry Sorrow drinks our blood. 

143S. joy multiplied by distress. 
Joy is more welcome in a needful time. 

1439. mischief. 

O Mischief! thou art swift 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. 

* Digitalis, Aconitum, Hyoscyamus, Cicuta Vir©sa>.&c 9 the most 
violent vegetable Poisons and powerful Remedies. 



Othello.] APHORISMS. l(5i 

1440. gold the worst poisoner. 

Gold is worse poison to men's souls, 
Doing more murthers in this loathsome world, 
Than any mortal drug. 

1441. DESPAIR* 

Tempt not a desperate man. 

1442. PATIENCE, 

Let mischance be slave to Patience. 



OTHELLO. 

• 144$. MASTERS. 

We cannot ail be Masters: and all Masters 
Cannot be truly follow'd. 

1 444. weapons; defective better than none. 
Men do their broken weapons rather use 
Than their bare hands. 

1445. calamity when felt to be inevitable 

better borne. 
When remedies are past the griefs are ended, 
By seeing the worst which late on Hope depended. 

1446. complaint unavailing — a source of 

perpetual misery. 
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

1447. patience. 

What cannot be preserved when Fortune takes, 
Patience her injury a mockery makes. 

1448. 1 [thief; 
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the 
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. 

1 440. words: unavailing in extreme suffering. 
Words are but words : 1 never yet did hear 
That the bruis'd heart was pieced thro' the ear- 
T 3 



162 SHAKESPERIAN [Othello. 

1450. generosity naturally unsuspecting. 

A free and open nature 
Doth think men honest that but seem to be so. 

1451. cultivation moral. 

Our Bodies are our Gardens, to the which our 
wills are Gardeners : so that if we will plant 
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up 
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or 
distract it w r ith many, either have it steril with 
idleness or manur'd with industry, why the power 
jand corrigible* authority of this lies in our wills. 

1452. love elevates and refines. 

Base men being in Love have then a nobility 
in their natures more than is native to them. 

1458. villainy marks itself* 
Knavery's plain face is rarely seen 'till us'd. 

1454. discretion to be maintained. 
Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop 
Not to outsport Discretion. 

1455. drinking condemned. 

It were to be wish'd that courtesy would in- 
vent some other custom of entertainment than 
Drinking, 

1456. 

O that Men will put an Enemy into their 
Mouths to steal 'away their Brains ! 

1457. reputation. 

Reputation is oft got without merit, and lost 
without deserving, 

1458. 
Good name inJSIan and Woman 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 

* 'Corrigible' for * corrective :» as ' penetrable* for ' penetrant*' in 
It JRGILi 



Othello,] APHORISMS. 163 

1459. 

Who steals our purse steals trash ; 'tis something, 
nothing ; [sands : 

'Twas our's, 'tis his, and has been slave to thou- 
But he that filches from us our good name 
Robs us of that which not enriches him, 
But makes us poor indeed. 

1460. HYPOCRISY. 

When Devils will the blackest sins put on, 
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows. 

146*1. PATIENCE. 

How poor are they that have not patience. 

1462. SINCERITY, 

Men should be what they seem. 

1463. jealousy — it's Banger and Misery. 

O beware of Jealousy ! 
It is the green-eyed Monster which doth make 
The meat it feeds on. 

1464. 

Trifles light as air 
Are to the jealous confirmations strong 
As proofs of holy writ. 

1465, suspicions are moral poisons. 
J)angerous conceits are in their nature poisons : 
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, 
But with a little act* upon the blood, 
Burn like the mines of sulphur. 

1466\ poverty; contented how much happier 
than disc on t en ted w ealth. 
Poor and content is rich and rich enough ; 
But riches fineless is as poor as winter 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor. 

* ' Act' here is • Action.' 



164 SHAKESPERIAN {To* A**- 

1467. provocation ; little Things become 
such when great go ill. 
When the clear Spirit's troubled, in such case 
Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, 
Though great ones are their object. 

146S. children — how to be instructed. 

Those that do teach young Babes 
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks. 

1469. guilt will betray itself. 

Guiltiness will speak, 
Though tongues were out of use. 

TITUS ANDRONICUS. 

1470. election should be by merit* 
Let Desert in pure Election shine. 

1471. modesty Me companion o/merit, 
Plead your Deserts in peace and humbling. 

1472. mercy and benevolence bring us 

nearest to the deity. 
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the Gods, 
Draw near them then in being merciful. 

1473. mercy. 

Sweet Mercy is Nobility's true badge. 

1474. death when earntby virtue is glory. 
He lives in Fame that died in Virtue's* cause. 

1475. grave, the — all human Passions rest there* 
In the Grave 
There lurks no treason ; there no envy swells : 
There grow no damned grudges : there no storms, 
No noise: — but silence, and eternal sleep f. 

* An Epitaph worthy of General WOLFE or Major PEIRSON. 
f The sentiment and cadence of this exquisite Passage were perhaps 
m CRAY'S mind when he wrote his admirable ELEGY . 



{Timor, cf APHORISMS. 163 

1476. thanks a pure reward, and preferred 

Thanks, to men [by virtue. 

Of noble Minds, is honourable meed. 

1477. like usually produces like. 
The Raven doth not hatch a Lark*. 

147S. MURTHER. 

How easily Murther is discover'd. 

1479. tears — their eloquence. 
Tears are prevailing Orators. 

1480. sympathy a cordial — the contrary a 

POISON. 

To weep with them that weep doth ease some 
But sorrow flouted at is double death. [deal : 

1481. sorrow or injury when extreme drive 

to MADNESS. 

Extremity of griefs will make men mad. • 

1482. RETALIATION. 

There's meed for meed, death for a deadly blow f. 

1483. SELF-PRAISE. 

When no friends are by men praise themselves. 
1484. friendships community of Joy and Sorrow. 
Friends should associate Friends in grief and woe. 



TIMON OF ATHENS. 
1485. flatterers drop off with Prosperity J . 
When Fortune in her shift and change of mood 
Spurns down her late belov'd, all his Dependents 

* Nee feroces 
Progenerant Aquilae Columbam. H0R. 

t Amv Ap7)$ fjios f kul (bovog (pOVQV. 

,/ESCHYL. 

t Donee eris dives multos numerabis amicos 
Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris. O V. 



166 SHAKESPERIAN [Tim* *f 

Athtm.\ 
Which laboured after him to the mountain's top 
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, 
Not one accompanying his declining foot, 

14Sf). FLATTERY. 

He that loves to be flatter'd is worthy of the 
Flatterer. 

1487. 

O, that men's ears should be 
To Counsel deaf, but not to Flattery. 

1488. 
Ah, when the means are gone that buy our praise, 
The breath is gone whereof our praise is made. 

1489. gifts are not a barter. 

There's none can truly say 
He gives if he receives. 

1490. CEREMONY. 

Ceremony was but devis'd at first 
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes ; 
Recanting goodness sorry ere 'tis shown : 
But where there is true Friendship there needs 

1491. corruption general. [none. 1 

Who lives that's not 
Depraved, or depraves ? 

1492. friendship — rarely unmixtwith enmity* 

Who dies that bears 
Not one spurn to their graves of their Friend's 

1493. ADVERSITY. [gift? 

Men shut their doors against a setting Sun. 

1494. liberality imprudent. 
'Tis pity Bounty had not eyes behind. 

1495. FRIEXDs/ak. 

Happier is he that has no Friends to feed, 
Than such that do e'en Enemies exceed. 



\Timnof APHORISMS. 167 

Athens^ 
1496. 

Friendship's oft full of dregs, 

1497. age— Old. 

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, 

Is fashion' d for the journey ; dull and heavy, 

1498. praise — marks of it's insincerity , 

No man can justly praise 
But what he does affect*. 

1499. SYMPATHY. 

§ Weigh thou thy friend's affections with thy own, 

1500. friendship zealous and courageous, 
Friendship has not a faint and milky heart. 

1501. INGRATITUDE. 

O see the monstrousness of Man. 
When he looks out in an ungrateful shape. 

1502. PROFUSION /^ ^O IXDIGEXCE. 

Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his 

1503. [house f. 
Many that keep their chambers are not sick. 

1504. 

A Prodigal's course 
Is like the Sun's : but not, like his, recoverable lc 
1505. MERCY. 

Pity is the virtue of the Law; 
And none but Tyrants use it cruelly.' 

15,0.6. 
As you are great, be. pitifully good. • 

1507. FORTITUDE. 

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer 

# M6%p/ yao (r ]o<rzf]8 Errccivoi ccvzKJct k]\* 

TKUCYD. 

f " Keeping house" is one of the descriptions of Bankruptcy. 

Stat, Jac, I< 
% Soles occidere & redire possum. CATULL. 



lGS SIIAKESPERIAN [Two* */ 

Athene] 

The worst that man can breathe : and make his 

wrongs 
His outsides ; wear them like his raiment, care- 
And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart [lessly ; 
To bring it into danger. 

150.8. 
To revenge is no valour but to bear. 

15 09. rashness easily censured by the phlegmatic, 
Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood ? 

1510. impatience, though a hum an Frailty, 

partakes o^impiety. 
To be in anger is Impiety : - 

But who is Man that is not angry*. 

1511. man — his mutability. 
Men are summer birds. 

1512. wealth — if s temptations. 

Who would not wish to be from Wealth exempt f ? 
J513. gold. .1 

Gold will make black white; 
Wrong right ; base noble ; old young ; coward 

valiant : 
Pluck stout men's pillows from below their 
This yellow slave . [heads — 

W r ill knit and break religions ; bless the accurst; 
Make the hoar leprosy ador'd ; place thieves' 
And give them title, knee, and approbation, I 
With senators ? on the bench. 

1514. professions — -.dishonesty in them. 
There is boundless theft 
In limited professions. 

* "Angry" here is trisyll. " What Man 5s he that sinneth not ?»» 
i „ -,. . . KINGS. 

+ Give me neither Poverty nor, Riches : feed me with food convenient 
for :i»e.'* PROV. 



Macbeth. ] APHORISMS. 169 

1 5 15.virtue may be ?naintained in the zvorst Times. 
There is no time so miserable but a man may 
be true. 

1516. FRlEXDS/fl/^. 

What viler thing upon' the earth than Friends 
'Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends ? 
15 IT. war should hate peace for it's object. 
Use the Olive with thy Sword ; 
Make War breed Peace '*> make Peace stint W r ar: 

make each 
Prescribe to other as each-other's Leachf. 
15 IS. misers — their P res en ts design ed as baits. 

Misers deal* gifts, 
Expecting in return twenty for one. 

1 5 1 9. content in the tcorst circitm stances pre- 
ferable ^discontent in the best. 
Willing Misery 
Outvies uncertain Pomp; is crown'd before: 
The one is filling still, never complete ; 
The other at high wish : Best state, contentless, 
Hath a distracted and most wretched being: 
Worse than the worst content. 



MACBETH. 

1520. messenger — his appearance sheus the 
import of his message. 
X Haste is in the eye 
Of him that speaks things strange. 

* " PAX QUJfcRITUR BELT 0" was CROMWELL'S Motto. All 
pretend : but 1k>w few Governments practise it. i 

f " Leach." The old word for Physician. 



170 SHAKESPERIAN [Macbeth. 

1521. fraud indulges in small Matters to 
deceive in great. 

'Tis strange 
And oftentimes to win us to our harm, 
The instruments of Darkness tell us truths; 
Win us with honest trifles, to, betray us 
In deepest consequence. 

1522. duplicity. 

Be they no more beltev'd 
That palter with us in a double sense ; 
Keeping the Word of Promise to our Ear 
To break it to our Hope. 

1523. imagination — it's power tremendous, 

Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings. 

, 1524. time and opportunity. 
Time and the hour * run through the roughest day, 
1525. physiognomy — -it's Indications exceed- 
ing difficult. 

1T There's no art 
To find the Mind's construction in the Face. 
152o\ physiognomy— some, characteristics 
obvious: as of xtl-ak. 
To alter favour f ever is to fear. [tunity. 

1527. affection ; interesting even init'simpor- 
The Love that follows us sometimes is our trouble ; 
Which still we praise as Love. 

1528. ambition. 

Vaulting Ambition oft o'erleaps itself. 

1529. wickedness m«A te^. [know. 
False face will hide what the false face doth 

* C Qpcc — so used in the Greek. 

•£' Appearance* 



Macbeth.] APHORISMS. 171 

1530. SLEEP. 

K§ Sleep doth knit up the ravel'd sleeve of care ; 
Is the' death of each day's life ; sore labour's bath ; 
Balm of hurt minds; great Nature's second 
Chief nourisher in Life's feast. [course ; 

1531. SLEEPfl^DEATH, 

The sleeping and the dead 
Are but as pictures. 

1532. FEAR. 

Fears and scruples alarm us. 

1533. emotions great and \ sudden — their power, 
Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious, 
Loyal and neutral in a moment ? — No man. 

1534. HYPOCRISY. 
To shew an unfelt sorrow is an office 
Which the false man does easy. 

1535. 
There are daggers in men's smiles. 

1536. discontent — nothing good with it. 

Nought's had, all's spent, 
Where our desire is got without content*. 

1537. murther— the assassin suffers more 

than the victim. 
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy 
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. 
1538. 

Better be with the Dead 
Whom we to gain our place have sent to peace, 
Than on the torture of the mind to lye. 
In restless ecstacy. 

* Erertere domus totas optantibus ipsis 

DII feeiles. JUT. 

Q 2 



172 SHAKESPERIAN [Macbeth 

1539. feast the true, 

1Tt At that unblameable and chearful Feast* 
Where Temperance and Peace of Mind sit down, 
There good Digestion waits on Appetite, 
And Health on both. 

1540. crime multiplies itself. 

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. 

1541. RETRIBUTION. 

Blood will have Blood. 

1542. fear — treacherous. 

When our Actions do not, 
Our Fears do make us Traitors. 

1543. calamity at it's height gives hope of a 

favorable change'. 
Things at the worst will cease :'or else climb up- 
To what they were before. [ward 

1544. virtue and vice — the Judgment of the 

World often confounds them. 
In this world to do harm is oft held laudable ; 
And to do good accounted dangerous folly. 

1545. disposition may be corrupted by power. 
A good and virtuous Nature may recoil 
In an imperial charge f. 

1546. virtue not to be less respected for in- 
stances of failure. 
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 

1547. 
Though all things foul would wear the brows of 
Yet grace must iii\\ look so. [grace, 

* Memor illius Escae 
Quae simplex olim tibi sederit. 

•{■ Omnium judicio diguus imperio nisr imperasset. TACITUS. 



Machetk] APHORISMS. 173 

154S. LUXURY. 

Boundless Intemperance 
In nature is a tyranny : it hath been 
The untimely emptying of the happy Throne, 
And fall of many Kings. 
' 1549. virtues— Eoytf/. 

K The king-becoming Graces 
Are Justice, Verity, Temp' ranee, Stableness; 
Bounty, Perseverance, Mercy, Lowliness; 
Devotion, Patience; Courage, Fortitude. 

1550. grief — silent the deepest. 

The Grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break. 

1551. emotions — Conflict between opposite. 
Welcome and unwelcome things at once 

*Tis hard to reconcile. 

1552. guilt extreme — it's natural consequence 

extreme anguish. 

Unnatural deeds 
Do breed unnatural troubles* 

1553. conscience — a guilty, ill knows how to 

keep it's own secret. 

Infected minds 
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 

1554. mind — thoroughly diseased^ ill admits 

REMEDY. 

'Tis hard to minister to a Mind diseas'd ; 
Pluck from the Memory a rooted sorrow ; 
E,ase out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And with some sweet oblivious antidote 
Cleanse the stufft bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which weighs upon the Heart. 

Q 3 



174 SHAKESPERIAN [&»«$,./ 

Errors.] 

1555. PROCRASTINATION. 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in it's petty pace from day to day 
To the last syllable of recorded time : 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to study death. 

COMEDY OF ERRORS. 

1556. LIBERTY. 

A man is master of his liberty. 

1557. patience easily preacht to others. 
A wretched Soul bruis'd with adversity 
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry ; 

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, 
As much or more we should ourselves complain. 

1558. JEALOUSY. 

How many fond fools serve mad Jealousy ! 

1559. 
The venom'd clamour of a jealous Woman 
Poisons more deadlv than a mad doe's tooth. 

1560. SLANDER. 

Slander lives upon succession ; 
For ever hous'd where it once gets possession. 

1561. contempt the worst Aggravation of 

INJURY. 

Aggravate not wrong by contempt. 

1562. time. 

Time is a very bankrupt : and owes more than 
he's worth to season*. 

1563. digestio n — Ease of Mind necessary to 
Unquiet meals make ill digestions. [it. 

* A most deeply philosophical reproof on Mankind for their tardy- 
progress in knowledge and improvement, speculative and moral. 



[Much ado about APHORISMS. 175 l 

Nothing."] 

1 564. care changes the cov N tenance, 
Careful hours*, with Time's deforming hand ? 

have written strange defeatures in the face. 

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 

1565. sympathy, affectionate, contrasted xtith 
How much better it is to weep at joy [exvy. 
Than to joy at weeping. 

1 5 66. measure in every Thing. 
There is measure in every thing. 

1567. friendship and love—^ latter wz- 

dermines the former .~ 
Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of Love. 

1568. love should not chuse by another. 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 

And trust no agent. 

156*9. silence most expressive of 'perfect 
happiness. 
Silence is the most perfect herald of joy. 

157O. necessary to the true enjoyment of 

Stillness graces Harmony. [music. 

157L detraction — hozo we may improve by it. 

Happy are they that hear their detractions, 
and can put them to mending f. 

1572. favoritism nurses INGRATITUDE. 
Favorites. 
Made proud by Princes, oft advance their pride 
Against that Power that bred it. 

* These lines, memorable In themselves, have been rendered more so 
by being chosen as a Motto ro the Portrait of a LADY v. hope SONNETS 
will ever do honor to English POETRY, of which they constitute iom^ 
©f the most delicate and reiined Beauties. 

f This is considered in one oi Uie Moral Essays of PLUTARCH? 



176 SHAKESPERIAN [Much ado ohout 

Nothing.'] 

1573* liking — xchile unconfirmed, easily poi- 
soned by a maliciom suggestion. 
One doth not know 
How much an ill word may empoison liking, 

1574. love sometimes conquer s fairly ; sometimes 

by artifice. 
Some Cupids kill by arrows, some by traps* 

1575. comparisons invidious. 
Comparisons are odious. 

1576. AUDACITY/rOTW IGNORANCE. 

O what men dare do! What men may do! 
What men daily do ! Not knowing what they do. * 

1577. HYPOCRISY. 

O, what authority and shew of truth 
Can cunning Sin cover itself withal. 

3578. good too frequently neglected while in 
possession. 
That which we have we prize not to the worth 
While we enjoy it ; but being lackt and lost 
Why then we rack the value ; then we find 
The virtue that possession would not give us. 

1579. patience for the sufferings of others is 

found in many who, as to their own, 
have much of impatience. 
Men 
Can counsel and speak comfort to that Grief 
W r hich they themselves not feel : but tasting it, 
Their Counsel turns to passion ; which before 
Would give preceptial medicine to rage, 
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, 
Charm ache with air, and agony with words. 

1580. philosophy moral — too little applied 

to practice. 
There seldom has been found Philosopher 



[Twelfth APHORISMS. 177 1 

Night.} 

That could endure the tooth-ache patiently. 

1581. SELF-PRAISE. 

There is not one wise man among twenty that 
will praise himself. 

TWELFTH NIGHT. 

1582. Mtrsic — the food of love. 
Music is the/food of Love. 

1583. beauty external — not hastily to- be trusted. 
A beauteous wall doth oft close in pollution. 

1584. care hostile to life. 
Qire is an enemy to Life; 

1585. slaxdee is according to the Motive and 

Character. 
There is no slander in an allow'd Fool, though 
her do nothing but rail : nor railing in a known 
discreet Man, though he do nothing but reprove. \ 
.1586. wo m a N should marry an elder than herself. 
Let still the Woman take 
An elder than herself: so wears she to him; 
So .sways she level in her Husband's heart. 

1587. love betrays itself as sure as mu rther, 
A murtherous guilt shews not itself more soon 
Than Love that would seem hid*. 

1588. ingratitude most hateful and most 

contemptible. 
Ingratitude is more hateful in a man 
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness ; 
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption 
Inhabits our frail blood. 

* Whichever be the elder, the old English Proverb coincides : 
" Love and Murther will out." The latter constitutes the Mot and 
Subject of one of the most interesting Tales of Mrs. OPIE 



178 SHAKESPERIAN [LoveVLah* 

Lost.] 
1589- VIRTUE is BEAUTY. 

In Nature there's no blemish but the Mind; 
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind : 
Virtue is Beauty*; but the beauteous evil 
Are empty trunks o'er-flourisht by the Devil. 
1590. wisdom ought to rule.; not passion. 
Let thy fair Wisdom, not thy Passion, sway. 



LOVES LABOUR LOST. 

1591. fame — generous Minds look to it beyond 
■ ike Tomb. 

Let Fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
Live registered upon our brazen tombs, 
And then grace us N in the disgrace of Death; 
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, 
The endeavor of this present breath may buy 
That Honor which shall bate his scythe's keen 
And make us Heirs of all Eternity. [edge, 

-1592. science is too dazzling for presumptuous 

IGNORANCE, 

Study is like the Heaven's glorious Sun, 

That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks. 

1593. affliction— we should not indulge it 

as without hope. 
Affliction f may one day smile again. 

1594. pride. 

All Pride is willing Pride. 

J 595. glory— the .tote of it may lead to the 
most dreadful vices. 

Sometimes 

.■ 

* So saith PLATO, and go LAVATER : and thus the sublime AKEN- 
SIDE: " Mind, Mind alone— be^r witnets Earth and Heaven, 

** Tbe living fountains in itself contains 
" Of beauteous and sublime-" 
<f Quadrisyllable. 



[Love's Labor APHORISMS. 179 

Lost.] 

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes; 

When, for Fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, 

We bend to that the working of the heart. 

1596. youth liable to be presumptuous and 
headstrong. 
Young blood will not obey an old decree*. 

1597'. abstinence excessive; a cause of diseate. 
Abstinence engenders maladies. 

1598. study too severe. 

Universal plddding prisons up 
The nimble spirits in the arteries ; . 
As motion and long-during action tires 
The sinewy vigour of the traveller. 
I.599. cheavlF\j,Lts ess favorable to longevity. 
A light heart lives long. 

l600. folly most noted in the wise. 
Folly in Fools bears not so strongs note 
As Foolery in the Wise. 

3 6p.L grief has no ear for pompous condolence. 
Honest plain words best pierce the/ear of Grief. 

l6'02. mi rt Hiout of Season. 
Mirth cannot moAe a soul in agony. 

1603. jests depend.. on the acceptance of the 

HEARER. 

A Jest's prosperity lives in the ear - . 
Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it. 

i604 . good unpalatable after better. 

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs 
of Apollo. • 

u 

* Cereus in vitiym Secti ; menitoribus asper. . WOR- 



C: 1*0 SIIAKESPEIU AN [Henry V. 

HENRY V. 

K>05. CYPHER. 

A crooked figure may 
Attest-, in little place, a million. 

] 606. jests misplaced may tie fatal. 
A Jest will savour but of shallow wit, 
• When thousands weep more than did laugh at it*. 

1607. peace should not* make a State 7ie gleet 
ifs Security. 
It is most meet we arnr us 'gainst the Foe ; 
For Peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, 
(Tho* War nor no known quarrel were in question) 
But that defences, musters*, preparations, 
Should be nrtaintain'd, assembled, and Collected, 
As were a War in expectation. 

l60S. evil— -from it we may extract odOD. 
There fs some Soul of Goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out. 
' la09« KiNGS-^-/iozv y little they possess beyond 

POMP C^CEIIEMOXY. 

What have Kings, that privates have not too ? 
Save Ceremony, save general (Ceremony ? 
And what art thou, thou idol, Ceremony ? 
What kind of God art thou, that sufter'st more 
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers ? 
W r hat are thy rents, what are thy comings- in ? 
O Ceremony ! — shew me but thy worth ; 
W r hat is thy roll of adoration ? 
Art:thou. aught else but place, degree, andibrm, 
Creating awe and fear in other men ? 
Wherein thou art less happy, being fear'd, 
Than they in fearing.- — — — 

* Yet some such Jests have b*en too often uttered by Men in great 
Places in great Assemblies. 



Henry V,] APHORISMS. 181 

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, 
But ppison'd Flattery. O be sick, great Greatness I 
And bid thy Ceremony give thee cure : 
Think'st thou the fiery Fever will go out 
With titles blown from adulation ? 
Will it give place to flexure and low bending ? 
Can'st thou, when thou command'st the beggar's 

knee, 
Command the health of it*? — No; thou proud 

dream, 
That pi ay's t so subtly with a King's repose : 
'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, 
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, 
The inter- tissued robe of gold and pearl, 
The farsed title running 'fore the King, 
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp 
That beats upon the high shore of this world, 
No, not all these, thrice gorgeous Ceremony, 
Not all these, lay'd in bed majestical, 
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, 
Who with a Body fill'd and vacant Mind 
Gets him to rest. 

l6l0. heart — no Offence but uhat comes from it. 
All Offences come from the Heart*. 

l6ll. why and wherefore applicable to alt 

things. 
There are occasions and causes, why and 
wherefore, in all things J. 

# JJoveiv^i $ei *o7g Tow %7\oqpov» 

THEOCR. 
Pumque virent GENUA. HOR. 

f " Out of the Heart," &c. MATTH. xv. lg. 

t Bwtjer has burlesqued this J ° For every why he had a Avherefore," 

MSI), 



182 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VI. 

HENRY VI. 

1612. RUM OR— -fallacies. 
Report is fabulous and false. 

1613. DEATH. 

Just Death is umpire of men's miseries. 

1614. SILENCE. 

Be politic with Silence. 

1615. CRUELTY. 

The slaughterer doth wrong 
Who giveth many wounds when one will kill. 

1616. DISSENTION Civil. 

Civil Dissention is a viperous worm 

That gnaws the bowels of a commonwealth. 

1617. peace ought to be dearest to the Teachers 

o/*religion. 
Who should study to prefer a Peace, 
If holy Churchmen take delight in broils I 

161 8. malice — how criminal. 
Malice is a great and grievous Sin. 

3619. delay. 
Delays have dangerous ends. 

1 620. anxiety useless and corroding. 
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, 
For things that are not to be remedied. 

1621. friends — wound them not . [help** 
Strike those that hurt ; and hurt not those that 

1622. friendship; a source of courage. 
Friendship begets new courage in our breast. 

1623. MARRIAGE. 

Marriage is a matter of more worth 
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship f. 

* ThU advice might be well applied in support of the Catholic Petition, 
•f* Yet it is a fact that Mr Fergmon, the Astronomer, said, thutndt 
Baying leisure, be aaked a Friend to chuse a Wife 4'w him. 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS. 183 

HENRY VI.— 2d Part. 

162 4-. love; if s Happiness. 

H§ Sympathy in Love doth give 
A world of earthly blessings to the Soul* 

1625. pirates lavish. [pillage, 
Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their 
And purchase friends, and give to courtesans; 
Still revelling like Lords till all be gone. 

1626. ambition corrosive. 

Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. 

1627- always soaring. 

Man and Bird are fain of climbing high. 

l62S. 'Tis but 9. base ignoble mind 

That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 

1629. KNAVERY. 

A crafty knave does need no broker. 

1630. accusation — that of a Villain not to be 

lightly received. 
Do not cast away an honest Man for a Villain's 
Accusation. 

1631. PEACE-MAKERS. 

Blessed are the Peace-makers* on Earth. 

1632. god slights not those who rely on him. 
God be prais'd, that to believing Souls 
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. 

1633. Gratitude to him. 

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, 
But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

1 63 4? . discerns Hearts. 

God knows of pure Devotion. 

* MATTH. v. 9. 

e2 



184 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VI. 

1635. law — it's Judgement conclusive here. 
One cannot justify whom the Law condemns. 

1636. prosperity liable to be obscured. 
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud. 

1637$ care and joy — their Vicissitude. 
Cares twid Joys go round as Seasons fleet. 

1638. blind — Persons born so must learn the 

Na??ies of Colours from Information. 
+ I11 those born blind, with sudden sight endued, 
Sight may distinguish colours ; suddenly 
To nominate them all it is impossible. 

1639. SOUND Without STRENGTH. 

Small Curs are not regarded when they grin ; 
But great men tremble when the Lion roars. 

1640. waters— Deep a re quiet*. 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deepest. 

1641. rox plunders silently. 

The Fox || barks not when he would steal the 

1642. virtue courageous. [Lamb. 
A Heart unspotted is not easily daunted. 

1643. physjognomy and eyes eager andfery \. 
Red sparkling Eyes blab the Heart's malice. 

1644. PRETENCE/or MISCHIEF. 

A staff is quickly found to beat a Dog. 

1645. discontent most wretched. 
What is more miserable than Discontent t 

1646. horror once infused not easily overcome* 
Can he who comes to sing a Raven's note, 
Whose dismal tune bereaves our vital powers, 
Think that the feeble chirping of a Wren 

By crying comfort from a hollow breast, 
Can chase away the first conceived sound ? 

* And so commonly of Understandings. 

H It is understood he does bark when he would steal the Pheasant* 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS. 185 

1647. presumption from circumstances. 
Who finds the Heifer dead and bleeding fresh, 
And sees fast by a Butcher with an axe, 

But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter. 

1648. coxsciexce. 

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just*: 
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

1649. 
Ah I what a sign it is ofjevil life 
Where Death's approach is witness' d terrible. 

1650. pride — light circumstances raise it m 

mean Dispositions. 
Small things make base men proud. 

1651. grief softens. 
Grief softens the Mind. 

16*52. oaths criminal. 
It is great sin to swear unto a Sin, 

16.53. WAR. 
War is a son of Hell. [devotion*. 

16'54. military glory requires a sei/i> 
He that is truly dedicate to War 
Hath no self-love: nor he that \oves himself 
Hath not essentially, but by circumstance,. 
The name of Valour. 

HENRY VI.— 3d Part. 

l6a5. wrath deaf. 
Wrath makes men deaf. 

1656. courage false. 
What valour were it when a cur doth grin, 

* Hie mums aheneus esto 
Nil conscire sibi — -nulla pallescere culpa, JUV. 

R3 



186 SHAKESPE'RIAN [Henry VI. 

For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, 
When he might spurn him with his foot away. 

1657. BEAUTY — GOODNESS — SELF-COMMAND 

— the three Female Graces. 
'Tis Beauty that doth oft make Women proud : 
'Tis Virtue that doth make them most admir'd : 
7 Tis Government that makes them seem divine. 

165 8. women — their true Character. 
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. 

16,59. strength the greatest yields to multiplied 
Attacks. 
Hercules his-self must yield to odds: 
-And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak. 

1660, tears alleviate sorrow. 
To \*eep is to make less the depth of Sorrow. 

l6§l. animals— the fiercest lore their Offspring, 
To whom do Lions cast their gentle looks ? 
Not to the beast that would usurp their den. 
Whose hand is that the forest Bear doth lick ? 
Not his that spoils her young before her face. 
Who 'scapes the lurking Serpent's mortal sting? 
Not he that sets his foot upon her back, 

1662. COURAGE/rom DESPAIR. 

The smallest Worm will turn, being trodden on ; 
And Doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. 

1 663 . villain y — unprosperous. 
Things ill-got had ever bad success. 

1 664. content; rural ; happier than Royalty. 
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade 
To Shepherds looking on their silly sheep, 
Than doth a rich embroidered, canopy 

To Kings 'that fear their subjects' treachery ? 
4> yes, it doth;— a thousand-fold it doth. 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS. 187 

1665. 

The Shepherd's homely curds, 
His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle; 
His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade \ 
(All which secure and sweetly he enjoys), 
Is far beyond a Prince's delicates ; . 
His viands sparkling in a golden cup ; 
His body couched in a curious bed ; 
When Care, Mistrust, and Treason wait on hinu 

\666. wind ill that blows no one good, 
I'll blows the wind that profits nobody. 

1667. TOTVLARITY follows FORTUNE. 

The common people swarm like summer flies : 
And whither fly the gnats but to the Sun ? 

l6tj8. indulgence excessive nurses Crimes. 
What doth cherish weeds but gentle* air i 
And what makes robbers bold but too much 

1669. retaliation. [lenity f ? 
Measure for Measure must be answered. 

1670. grief — impatient. 
Impatience waiteth on true sorrow. 

1671 . villainy i« time meets it's Correction . 
The Heavens are just: and Time suppresseth 

1672. marriage. [wrongs* 
Hasty Marriage seldom proveth well. 

1673. haste — where requisite. 
Haste is needful in a desperate case. 

J674. distrust — to be moderated. 
'Tis cowardice 
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart 
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of Love, 

* It cherishes the good Plants also. 
i Too much severity \nll equally. 



enry 



188 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VI. 

1675. necessity should be patiently endured. 
What fates impose, that men must needs abide. 

1(S76. 
Few men rightly temper with their stars. 

1677- beginnings — bad. 
Many a man that stumbles at the threshold 
Is well foretold that danger lurks within, 

l678. cr a ft follows up itfs advantages. 
When but the Fox hath once got in his nose, 
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. 

l679- kindness is entitled to reciprocity. 
Graces challenge Grace. 

1680. pomp and power are DtrsT. [dust*? 
Why what is Pomp, Rule, Reign, but earth and 

1681. appearances threatening. 
Every cloud engenders not a storm. 

1682. remedy rather than lamentation. 
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss ; 

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 

1683. anger not to be indulged against the 

unoffending. 
Men never spend their fury on a Child, 

1 68 4 . suspicion inseparable from guilt. 
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. 

1685. 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

1686. suspicion from experience. 
The Bird that hath been limed in a bush, 
With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. 

* Palvis et Umbra sumus, HOR. 



[A Midsummer APHORISMS. 1S9 

Night* s Dream."] 

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 

1687. love — Influence of little tokens of Re- 

membrance. 
Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats; messengers 
Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth. 

1688. L ove seldom ^prosperous. 

The course of true Love seldom doth run smooth, 

But either it was different in blood, 

Or else misgrafted in respect of years, 

Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ; 

Or if there were a sympathy of choice, 

War, Death, or Sickness, did lay siege to it*. 

1689. marriage happier than celibacy. 
Earthly happier is the Rose distill'd 

Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. 

1690. spring sickly. 

When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds ap- 
Sickness is catching. [pear, 

1691. love sees by the affection. 

Love looks not with the eyes but with the Mind, 

1 692 . cowardice pursuing valour. 

'Tis bootless speed 
When Cowardice f pursues and Valour flies. 

1693. women to be zcoo'd. 

Women are woo'd, and were not made to woo. 

1694. CHANGE. 

Who will not change a Raven for a Dove. 

169-5- will ; should be governed by reason. 
The Will of Man is by his Reason sway'd. 

* " For either 
" He never shall find out fit Mate," &c. P. L. X. 

f Ccrvi, LupoTum Praeda rapacium , , 

Sectamur ultro. HOR. 



190 SHAKESPERIAN {Mordant of 

Venice.} 

1696. grief — sleepless. 

Sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow 
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe. 

1 697 . perception — the suspension of one Sense 

quickens another. 
Dark Night, that from the eye his function takes, 
The ear more quick of apprehension makes. 

1698. imagination ; whom it principally go- 
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, [yerns. 
Are of Imagination all compact. 

1699- poetry; if s force of imagination. 
The Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from Heaven to Earth, from Earth 
And as Imagination bodies forth [to Heaven ; 
The forms of things unknown, the Poet's pen 
Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. 

1700. will accepted as the dew. 
What poor willing Duty cannot do, 
Noble respect accepts as done*. 



MERCHANT OF VENICE. 

1701. dispositions — their strange Diversity. 
Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time ; 
Some that will evermore peep through their eyes 
And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper; 

And others of such vinegar aspect 

That they'll not shew their teeth in way of smile, 

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 

1702. res p ect — lost by too eager seeking of it. 
They lose respect that buy it with much care. 

* Your Will is your Deed. PROV. 



[Merchant of APHORISMS. 1£1 

Venice ] 

1 7 03 . wisdo M — affectation of it. 
There is a sort of men whose visages 
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. 
And do a wilful stillness entertain, 
With purpose to be drest in an opinion 
Of Wisdom, Gravity, profound Conceit. 

1704. luxury and temperance contrasted. 
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs; but 

Competency lives longer. 

1705. knowledge and PRACTICE. 

If to do were as easy as to know what were good 
to do, Chapels had been Churches 2 and poor 
Men's Cottages Princes' Palaces*. 

1706. HYPOCRISY. 

The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 

1707. 
An evil soul producing holy witness 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. 

1708. 
O what a goodly outside Falsehood hath, 

1709. inequality. 

O that Estates, Degrees, and Offices, 
Were not deriv'd corruptly ; and that clear Uo- 
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! [nor 
How many then should cover that stand bare ; 
How many be commanded that command ! 
How much low peasantry would then be glean'd 
From the true seed of Honor; and how much 

Honor 
Pickt from the chaff and ruin of the times, 
To be new varnish'd. 

* This latter consequence docs not very clearly follow : but it b clear 
tfcat Cottage* would be mare numerous and more coinfortablf. 



192 SHAKESPERIAN {Merchant of 

Venice.] 

1710. shew deceives the world. 
The World is still deceiv'd with Ornament. 

1711. 
There is no Vice so simple but assumes 
Some mark of Virtue on his outward parts* 

J 7 1 2 . divinity — Errors in it made plausible* 
In Religion 
What damned error but some sober brow 
Will bless it and approve it with a Text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament* 

1713. law — Deceits in it. 

In Law what Plea so tainted and corrupt 
But being season'd with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the shew of evil , ? 

17 14. m 1 l i t a it Y — hnposture in that Profession. 
How many Cowards whose hearts are all as false 
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins 
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars. 

1715. orkamext deceitful. 
Ornament is but the gilded shore 
To a most dangerous sea. 

1^1 6. good never to be repented. 
One never did repent for doing good. 

1717. cruelty once habitual , cannot be softened. 
§X You may as well use question with the Wolf 
Why he hath made the Ewe bleat for the Lamb ; 
You may as well forbid, the mountain pines 
To wag their high tops, and to make no noise 
When they are fretted with the Gusts of Heaven ; 
You may as well do any thing most hard 
As seek to soften that (than which what's harder) 
A cruel Heart, 



{Merchant of APHORISMS. 1Q3 

Venice.} 

171S. fruit — the zceakest falls soonest. 
The weakest kind of Fruit 
Drops soonest to the ground. 

1719- MERCY. 

The quality of Mercy is not strain'd ; 

It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven 

Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest : 

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 

'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes 

The throned Monarch better than his crown; 

His sceptre shews the force of temporal power! 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of Kings. 

But Mercy is above this sceptred sway : 

It is enthroned in the hearts of Kings : 

It is an attribute to God himself: 

And earthly power doth then shew likest God's 

When Mercy seasons Justice. 

1720. RECOMPENCE. 

He is well paid that is well satisfied. 

1721. music — best suited to Night and Silence. 

Soft Stillness and the Night 
Become the touches of sweet Harmony*. 

1722. harmony celestial. 

There's not the smallest Orb which thou beholdst 
But in his motion like an Angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed Cherubim: 
Such Harmony is in immortal Souls; 
But while this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear itf. 

* To one whotrulv loves Music, the most perfect stillness is reauisite, 

Vide TIN DAL's ESS. 
+ Where are the sublimest Theories of the Platonic Philosophy snore 
classically, more beautifully, mere sublimely express! ? 

S 



10* SHAKESPERIAN (^ *4* 

Like It.] 

1723. music — Dislike of it — a bad Symptom. 
The man that hath no Music in himself, 

Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds^ 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; 
The motions of his Spirit are dull as Night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus : 
Let no such man be trusted. 

1724. OPPORTUNENESS. 

How many things by Season seasoned are 
To their right praise and true perfection. 

1725. WIFE. 

A light Wife doth make a heavy Husband. 

AS YOU LIKE IT. 
1726. f o E t u n e — governs in adventitious Things; 
not in those o/nature. 
Fortune reigns in the gifts of the World ; not 
in the lineaments of Nature. 

1727. T r e a s o N n ut in heritecL 
Treason* is not inherited. 

1728. adversity profitable. 
Sweet are the uses of Adversity, 
Which, like the Toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. 

1729. Retirement contemplative ', finds G 000 

in every thing, 
X A Life that is exempt from public haunt 
Finds tongues in trees; books in the running 

brooks ; 
Sermons in stones; and good in every thing. 

* This shews, by implied consequence, how much the Punishment 
of Attainder and Forfeiture, in cases of Treason and other Felon/, 
eught to be mitigated, to be consistent with Justice. 



[As r*te APHORISMS. 195 

Like it.] 

1 730. qualities Good — sometimes the occasion 

To some kind of men [o/*evil. 

Their Graces serve them but as Enemies. 

1731. -—often of OBLOQUY. 

O what a World is this, when what is comely 

Envenoms him that bears it ! 

1732. providence — it's Care over all. 

X§ He that doth the Ravens feed, 

Yea providently caters for the Sparrow ; 

Will comfort Man's old age. 

J 733. distress neglects the forms of Politeness. 

K The thorny point 

Of bare Distress doth take from us the shew 

Of smooth Civility. 

1734. misery — we should think of that of Others* 

One is not alone unhappy : 

This wide and universal theatre 

Presents more woeful pageants than the scene 

Wherein one plays. 

1735. life compared to a Theatre. 

All the World's a Stage*, 
And all the men and women merely Players : 
They have their exits and their entrances, 
And one man in his time plays many parts; 
His acts being seven Ages. 

1736. past and PRESENT. 
Was is not Is. 

1737. suffering anxiotis for remedy. 
X Wherever Sorrow is Relief should be. 

* Xkijvh TLccg *o Biog kcki Uctiyviov. 

EP. VET. 



s 2 



196 SHAKESPERIAN [TkTmi*gof 

the Shrew.] 
If38. THOUGHT. 

Thought runs before Action. 

1 739. pla y — a good recommends itself. 
A good Play needs no Epilogue. [dation. 

1740. but may be served by other recommen- 

Good Plays prove the better by the help of 
good Epilogues. 

174?1. judgement and taste — want of them 
in others how discouraging. 

When a man's verses cannot be understood, 
nor a man's good wit seconded by the under- 
standing, it strikes a man more dead than a great 
reckoning in a little room. 

1742. knowledge ill judged. 

Knowledge in an ill habitation is worse than 
Jovef in a thatch' d house. 



THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. 

1743. women — Kindness and good Temper more 

conciliates Love than Beauty. 
Kindness in Women, not their beauteous looks, 
Oft wins Men's love, 

1744. THANKS. 

The poorest service is repaid with Thanks. 

1 7 4*5 . mind — all true Riches there. 
It is the Mind that makes the Body rich, 
And as the Sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 
So Honor peereth in the meanest habit. 

* Thus it was said, " Ingenium Galbne male habitat." 
f Alluding to RAUCIS and PHILEMON; that most delightful of the 
Metamorphoses. An old Philosopher thus invited his Friends who 
weye startled at the moanoee* of his dwelling : M Eater boldly : for her© 
arso are the Gods." 



{Merry Wives A P H Rl S M S . 1 Of 

of Windsor .] 

1746. shew — superficial. 

What is the Jay more precious than the Lark, 
Because his feathers are more beautiful ? 
Or is the Adder better than the Eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye ? 

1747. self — we are apt individually to judge all 

things by. 
He that is giddy thinks the world turn* round, 

1748. contempt — how unamiable. 

Scorn does blot Beauty as frosts bite the meads ; 
Confounds the Fame as whirlwinds shake fair 
And in no sense is meet or amiable. [buds ; 

1 7 ±9* ¥ ° M A N — how disguised by Anger. 
A Woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled : 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of Beauty. 

MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. 

VOL. I. 

1750. YOUTH. 

Young Ravens must have food. 

1751. LOVE. 

Though Love use Reason for his Physician** 
he admits him not for his Counsellor. 

1752. — capriciovs. [[pursues ; 

Love like a shadow flies when substance Love 
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. 

1753. HOPE. 

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. 

17o4. experience — predovs. 
Experience is a jewel. 

* Sarcastically : it wiltt not Consult Season till it sickens, 

s 3 



193 SHAKESPERIAN [Pericles, Prince 

1/55. study — the Love of it. 

Keep "a Gamester from the dice, and a good 
Student from his book, and it is wonderful. 

1756*. wives may be merry and virtuous. 
Wives may be merry and yet honest too. 

17o7. NIGHT. 

When Night-dogs run, all sorts of Deer are chas'd. 

1758.. MARRIAGE. 

In Love the Heavens themselves do guide the 

state : 
Money buys lands, and Wives are sold by Fate. 



PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE. 

1759- good. 
Boxum, quo antiquius eo melius*. 

1760. custom, or usage, hardens. 
Custom makes Sin seem in account no Sin. 

1761, glory or love — despise Death. 

t A Soul 
Embolden'd with desire of Glory or Love, 
Thinks Death no hazard. 
"'1762. glory— it's Price. 

§ Glory 
Must by Desert be gain'd. 

1763. mortality — difficult to teach it Self- 

knowledge. 
Q Useful it is but difficult to teach 
Our frail Mortality to know itself. 

1764. god omniscient. [Acts. 
§ Heaven hath it's countless eyes to view Men's 

* " The older the better" The original was, "Quo communiuf/' 
Ci the more caiumunicated ." but altered for the occasion. 



.{Pericles, Prince APHORISMS. 199 

of Tyre.] 

l?65. beauty — not amiable without Goodness. 
X Wisdom loves Beauty ; but will not love still, 
Finding a glorious Casket stockt with 111, 
At which it's thoughts revolt. 

1766. pleasures — bad. 
>{ Bad Pleasures in the end are bought too dear. 

176/. affection filial. 
All love the Womb that their first Being bred. , 

176S. HYPOCRISY. 

A Hypocrite 
Is good in nothing but in sight. 

1769- vice — assimilates all to itself. 
Serpents, though they feed 
On sweetest flowers, yet they do poise n breed. 
1770. guilt will hazard any thing for Conceal- 
Wisdom sees, that Men [ment. 

Who blush not at an Act blacker than Night, 
Will shun no course to keep it from the light. 

i77-l- productive of farther. 

One Sin another doth provoke. 
1772. crimes — their Affinity. 
Murther's as near to Lust as Fiame to Smoke. 
/. 117 o. guilt treacherous. 
§ Poison and Treachery are the hands of Sin. 

1774. POWER. 

X Power makes it's Will it's Act. 

1775. death — a Monitor. 

Death reniember'd should be like a Mirror 
Which tells us, — Life's but breath. 

1776. sickness — the same. 

Sick Men feeling woe 
Grasp not at earthly joys as erst they did *. 

* Knptip me Amki eujUsdahs Valetudo admonuit. 

f LIN. SEC. EP. 



200 SIIAKESPERIAN [Ark*/,'iv;*» 

1777* v irt ue will not * temporize. 

X Ask not advice of any other thought 
But Faithfulness and Courage. 

177S. sin — if s Approaches to be shunn'd. 
He is no man on whom perfections wait 
That, knowing Sin within, will touch the gate. 

1779* vice ashamed of itself. 
Few love to hear the Sins they love to act. 

1780. offensive. 

Vice repeated, like the wandering Avind, 
Blows dust in others' eyes. 

178 1. some instances of it become contagious 

by Publication. 

§ It is fit [it. 

What being more known grows worse, to smother 

1782. affected or fake Tenderness toward it. 

How Courtesy would seem to cover Sin. 

1783. MONARCHS. 

Who has a Book of all that Monarchs do, 
He's more secure to keep it shut than known* 

1784. tyrants cruel and suspicious. 

X A Tyrant 
Will think you speaking tho' you swear to silence.- 
Nor boots it you to say, you honor him, 
If he suspect you may dishonor him : 
For what may make him blush in being known, 
He'll stop the course by which it might be known. 

1785. 

f By Tyranny 
Subjects are punisht that ne'er thought offence. 

1786. invasion — when unexpected. 
K Amazement drives all courage from a State 
'Gainst Dangers unprepar'd ; — Men thus are van- 
Ere they resist. [quisht 



[*-***, Prince APHORISMS. 201 

1787. king — a good, 

X A good King 
Cares for his People more than for himself. 

1788. 
© Happy the King who by his peaceful Reign 
And Government deserves the name of Good. 

1789. EXPERIENCE. 

H Give to Experience ear; she finds a tongue. 

1790. FLATTERY. 

Thev do abuse a King who flatter him. 

1791. 
Flattery as a Bellows blows up Sin. 

1792. kings — should be ready to hear unwelcome 
Reproof obedient and in order [Truths, 

Fits Kings as they are Men ; for they can err. 

1793. plants — Allegorical Precept from them. 

Plants look to Heaven, whence 
They have their nourishment. 

1794. tyranny deceitfuL 

'Tis time to fear when Tyrants seem to kiss. 

1795. war indiscriminately destructive. 
War spares not Innocence. 

1796*. promise of the Good equal to their Oath. 
§ Take good Men's word for Faith; nor ask their 

Oath: 
Who shun not to break one will sure break both. 

1797- want extreme. 
Who wanteth food and will not say he wanteth ; 
Or can conceal bis hunger till he famish *? 

1798. luxury — it's fatal Secureness. 
X Behold what Heaven can do ! Oft comes a 
change, 

* And yet it is to be feared there are not wanting almost yearly in- 
stances to the contrary in the Metropolis. 



202 SIIAKESPERIAN [iW*,7V,W 

of Tyre.] 

When moutlis whom but of late Earth, Sea, and 

Were all too little to content and please, [Air, 

Long for a little bread, and beg for it. 

Let Men, let Cities, that of Plenty's cup 

And her prosperity so largely taste, 

With their superfluous riot think with fear 

These miseries may be their's. 

1799- misfortunes seldom single. 
One Sorrow seldom comes but brings an heir 
That may succeed. 

1800. OSTENTATION. 

Who makes the fairest shew means most Deceit. 

1801. virtue — Balance infinite in it's favor. 
G Whatever the virtuous sustain, 

They lose a mite, a mountain gain. 

1802. idleness — unjust and contemptible. 
X Man should not eat of honey like a Drone 
From others' labours. 

1803. SEA. 

On the Seas 
When once ernbarkt, seldom is ease. 

1 804. m a N-— his Injustice and his Rapacity. 
Men live too much like Fish : the great devour 

the less*. 

1805. begging should be made unnecessary, and 

Industry encouraged. 

It is bad policy when more is gotten by begging 
than by working. 

1806\ want — a Monitor. 
Want teaches Man remembrance what Man is. 

1807. APPKARANCEs/im Dress, fyc. deceitfuL 
§ Opinion's but a Fool that makes us scan 
From outward habit what the inward Man. 

* A saying ascribed to one of the Seven Wise Men, of Greece. 



{Ptncle^Prmec APHORISMS, S03 

of 7 }"-] 

1808. a RTiSTS-Meir many Degrees of Excellence, 
Nature in framing Artists hath decreed 
To make some good* but others to exceed. 

1809. music — loud. 

X ik Loud Music long continued is too harsh. 

1810. greatness no security for the Wicked 

X Greatness is no guard 
To bar Heaven's shaft : but Sin hath it's Reward*; 

1811. wisdom — her Authority. 

To Wisdom he's a Fool that will not yield f. 

1812. nobility true. 

© The true Nobility 
Is noble Actions and as noble Thoughts, 

1813. virtue and knowledge— — their 

transcendant Superiority. 
§ Virtue and Knowledge are endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches. — Careless Heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend; 
But Immortality attends the former, 
Making a Man a God. 
1814. 

Useful Science, in itself, 
Gives more content, in course of true deli gift, 
Than to be thirsty after tottering Honor, 
Or tie a treasure up in silken bags, 
Spoil for an Heir and Death. 

1815. SUPERSTITION o/SAILOHS, 

© The Superstition of Sailors believes that a 

* r Ev%£ Qsoglov u\i](>ov theocr. 

f 'Ovjog [jlBv TLayai>to<f[s k* *]• ^* HES * 



204 SIIAKESPERIAN {Ptridg, Prma 

of Tyre.] 

storm will not cease while a dead body is on 
board * . 

18l6\ animation — suspended. 
Death may usurp on Nature many hours, 
And yet the Fire of Life kindle again 
The overpressed Spiritsf. 

1817. RESIGNATION. 

f Strive not 'gainst Heaven. We cannot but obey 
The Powers above us. 

\1818. GRATITUDE PUBLIC. 

Those who have fed their Country from their 
Should in their Sons be thought on. [own 

18 19. honor and virtue have no need of 

Oaths to confirm them. 
Honor and Goodness win a native credit 
Without the aid of vows. 

1820. EDUCATION. 

Who hath gain'd 
In Music, Letters, Virtue, all the grace 
Of Education, is most justly theme 
Of general wonder. 

1821. ENVY. 

§ Envy is oft the wrack 
Of well-earnt Praise. 

1822. g o o d — Consolation on their early Death. 
The Good are fittest that the Heavens should have 

1823. grief. [them||. 

Unprofitable woe 
Changes the favor. 

* This Superstition either existed not with regard to the Body of 
Admiral Lord Nelson, or gave way to higher thoughts and to noble 
sympathies, truly worthy of Sailor's. 

t Dr. Hawes made great use of this passage in hU Lectures, when tks 
Humane Society was in it's infancy. 

f! Parum vitalU ille quem D1I diiigunW 



tfrrictes, Princt APHORISMS. 205 

iffy"-] 

1824. the deity omniscient. 

No ear is quick, nor any eye like Heaven's. 

1825. benevolence — true extends to all 

X § True Benevolence [Animals, 

Will never harshly treat nor do ill turn 
To any living creature. She abhors 
To kill a Mouse, or hurt a harmless Fly; 
Nor willingly she treads upon a Worm. 

1826. OBEDIENCE. 

t>£lk An Officer's commission, 
"Where Crime is not commanded, or Dishonor, 
Is not to reason of the deed but do it. 

1 827 - virtue;? refers Death to Dishonor. 
O To Virtue Death is better than Dishonor, 
1828. AMBITION. 

§ The hypocrite Ambition, 
Which to betray doth wear an Angel's face, 
Seizes with Eagle's talons. 

1829- HYPOCRISY. 

§ A borrowed Passion oft stands for true Woe. 

1830. 
No visor doth become black Villainy 
So well as soft and tender Flattery. 

1831. officers — public — should maintain 

Respect by Conduct. 

§ It is fit 
Men plac'd in Honor make that judgment good 
That thought them worthy of it. 

1832. c i-i a s t i t y — if s Influence. 
t E'en corrupted Minds 

True Chastity can awe and change to better, 

1833. 
t A Virgin or a Matron Sanctity 



206 SHAKESPERIAN, &C. {Pericles, Prince 

of Tyre.] 

Will to the sense lend no licentious ear. 

1834. soldiers — private. 

A Man may serve seven years in the Wars for 
the loss of a leg, and have not enough in the end 
to buy him a wooden one. 

1835. virtite and true accomplishments 

modest. 
© Genuine Accomplishments and Virtues keep 
In modesty and silence clear of boast. 

1836. bounty — what kind tndy Royal. 

© Bounty with Wisdom and with Goodness 
Becomes a King. [dwelling, 

1837. excellence modest. 

'Tis glorious ne'er to have invited eyes, 
Yet to be gaz'd on Comet-like. 

1838. truth may be too strong for Belief. 
tO The Truths of History and Nature's self 
Oft seem like Lies, disdain'd in the reporting. 

1839. welcome — when unexpected not readily 

credited. 
f An unexpected Truth dear to the Heart 
Seems as it ne'er could be confirm'd enough. 

1840. BENEVOLENCE With KNOWLEDGE. 

© Great is the worth of learned Charity. 

1841. man the Instrument of Divine Goodness* 
© Man at the best is but an Instrument 

Through which Heaven shews it's Power*. 

* Whoever wrote this Play, which seems to be among those which 
Capell considers as having been probably in part at least composed by 
Shakespeare, had the common School-Learning, Greek and Latin, 
(Hesiod in particular) in his memory. The Aphoristic turn of it, and 
the cadence of the verse, and frequently pathetic and simple strokes, 
sometimes even rays of sublimity, favor the early idea which gives it to 
this great Poet. Many of it's Maxims are repeated in nearly the same 
words in his unquestioned Plays : and with it's palpable faults and 
weaknesses, it has a scope of general, and sometimes a felicity of 
thought and manner in particular Observation, scarcely ever ascnbabte 
to any other Writer, 



APPENDIX. 



FROM THE 

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 

OF 

SHAKESPEARE. 

VENUS AND ADONIS. 

1842. selfishness to be avoided. 

JLorches are made to burn; Jewels to wear: 
Things growing to themselves are Growth's Abuse. 

1843. 
Upon the Earth's Increase why should'st thou feed, 
Unless the Earth by thy Increase be fed ? 

1844. youth — Harshness and Unkindness un* 
Unnatural it is, — Young and Unkind, [?iaturaL 

1845. grief^ — mitigated by Utterance. 

The Heart hath treble wrong 
When it is barrVl the aidance of the tongue. 

1846. aggravated by Restraint. 

An Oven that is stopt, or River stay'd, 
Burnetii more hotly, swelleth with more rage. 
So of concealed Sorrow may be said, 



208 APPENDIX. [Vemrsand 

Adonis.] 

1847. flattery — on whom ineffectual. 

t§ FalseVows, and feigned Tears, insidious Flattery 
In a firm Heart and wise will make no Battery. 

1848. PROGNOSTICS O/WEATHER, 

The redness of the Morn betokens 
Wreck to the Seam?n ; Tempest to the Field: 
Sorrow to Shepherds; Woe unto the Birds; 
Gust and foul Flaws to Herdsmen and to Herds*. 

184<)v desire uncheckt. 
+ Beware of large inordinate Desire 
Which plants Oblivion, beating Reason back, 
ForgettingShame's pure blush and Honor's wreck. 

1850. 

O strange Excuse 
When Reason is the Bawd to Lust's Abuse. 

1851. revolution overcomes seeming Impos- 

sibilities. 
Things out of Hope are compasst oft with 

1852. affection persevering. [vent'ringlj. 
Affection faints not} . 

1853. ADVICE. 

They thrive well that take counsel of their Friends, 

1854. JEALOUSY. 

Where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy 
Doth call liimself Affection's Centinel : 
Gives false Alarms ; suggesteth Mutiny ; 
And in a peaceful hour doth cry, " Kill, Kill" 

* Sirenum cantus & Circes pocula nosti : 

Quae si cum Sociis stultus cupidusque bibisset, 

Vixisset Canis immundus, vel arnica luto sus. 
g Auderrdo fiunt fieri quae posse negares. 

J C H Ayx7rvj ^B7fOJe bkXsittzu 



\Venusand APPENDIX. 209 

Adonis!\ 

1855. fear inventive. 

Danger deviseth Shifts; Wit waits on Fear*. 

1856. riches not a Security against hyustice 

of their Owners. 
Rich Preys make rich Men Thieves f. 

1857. beauty. 

The least of Nature's many maladies 

In one poor minute's fight brings Beauty under J 

Both Favor, Hue, and winning Qualities. 

1858. communic ati ven es s — disinterested. 

The Lamp that burns by Night 
Dries up his Oil to lend the World his Light.' 

1859. purity. 

% When a pure Heart stands armed at the ear, 
It will not let a false sound enter there. 

1860. LOVE. 

§ Of Love the Lesson is most plain, 
And once made perfect never lost again. 

.1861. — — ill measures Time. 
Long still are Lovers' hours, tho' seeming short. 

1862. credulous and incredulous. 

O hard believing Love ! — how strange it seems 
Not to believe ; — and yet, too credulous ! 

It's Wealth and Woe are both of them Extremes : 
Despair and Hope make it ridiculous, 

1863. liable to great Alloy. 

Sorrow on Love too often will attend : 

Too oft 'tis waited on by Jealousy ; 
Finds sweet beginnings but unsavoury end; 

* That is, if not excessive. 

+ Nationally, it is to be feared, as well as individually; 

| Form a {Jonum fragile est. QV. 

T3 



210 APPENDIX. ifbtu and 

Adonis.} 

Ne'er settled equally to high or low : 
That all Love's Pleasures shall not match his Woe. 
1864. love — it's Power to transform Character. 
The strongest, Love will instantly make weak : 
Strike the Wise dumb; and teach the Fool to 

1865. [speak. 
Love will suspect where is no cause of Fear ; 
And there not fear where it should most distrust. 

1866. — terrible in it's Effects. 

Love hath been cause of War and dire events. 

1567. contrasted with Appetite. 

Love comforteth like Sun-shine after Rain ; 

But Lust's-efTect is Tempest after Sun : 
Love's gentle Spring doth always fresh remain; 

Lust's Winter comes ere Summer half be done. 
Love surfeits not; Lust like a Glutton dies: 
Love is all Truth ; Lust full of forged Lies. 

1568. wisdom — Affectation of it in Childhood. 
Ill suit old Texts and Orators too green. 

1869. STORIES — LONG. 

Men pleas'd theirselves think others will delight 
In such like circumstance, with such like sport. 
Their copious Stories often-times begun, 
End without audience, and are never done. 

1870. SUPERSTITION. 

Look how the World's poor People are amaz'd 

At Apparitions, Signs, and Prodigies, 
(Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gaz'd) 
Infusing them with dreadful Prophecies. 
IS7L beauty — it's Power on the associative 
Principle. 
Beauty with her enchanting^Grace will set- 
Gloss on the Rose, Smell to the Violet. 



[Tarquinand APPENDIX. 211 

Lucrec:?^ 

1872. pleasures and ? a iys present. 
I^ach present Joy or Sorrow seems the chief. 

1S73. hope gives activity. * 
Hope chearful leaps that was but late forlorn. 

1 S 7 4- . pleasure — light and active, 

Where Joy's light footsteps fly 
The Grass stoops not, she treads on it so light, 

TARQUTN AND LUCRECE. 

1 S75 . innocexc E — unsuspicious. 
Unstained thoughts do seldom dream of Evil: 
Birds never lim'd no secret bushes fear. 

1876. 
Pure Innocence has never practis'd how 
To cloak offences with a cunning frown. 

1877- rank and dignity no Licence to 

>£ 'Tis a false privilege of high Estate \urong. 
To hide base Sin in pleats of Majesty. 
1878. king 3 — their Faults cannot pass unobserved. 

No outrageous thing 
From vassal- Actors can be wip'd away; 
Misdeeds of Kings cati not be hid in Clay. 

1879* should seek Love rather than Fear. 

Monarchs, shun seeming Love which springs from 
And seek no Fear but of respectful Love. [Fear, 

1880. should be an Example. 

J Princes should be the Glass, the School, the Book 
Where Subjects' Eyes may learn, and read, and 

look : 
And wilt thou be the School where Lust shall 
learn ? 

Must he in thee read Lectures of such Shame? 
Wilt thou be Glass wherein he shall discern 



212 APPENDIX. [Tarptinand 

Lucrcce.] 

Authority for Sin, Warrant for Blame ; 
To privilege Pishonor in thy Name ; 
To back Reproach against long-living Laud, 
And make fair Reputation but a Bawd. 

1881. king s — their Power intrusted to restrain, 

not countenance Evil. 
Hast thou Command ?— By Him that gave it thee 

From a pure Heart command thy rebel Will. 
Draw not thy Sword to guard Iniquity, 

For it was lent thee all that brood to kill. 

Thy princely office how can'st thou fulfil. 
When pattern'd by thy Fault foul Sin may say 
He learnt to sin, and thou did'st teach the way. 

1882. should remember how contagious ill 

Example in them. 

With foul Offenders thou perforce must bear> 
When they in thee the like Offences prove, 
If but for Fear of this thy Will remove. 

1S83. 
Should Kings be Breakers of their own Behests? 

1884. prixces and persons of birth — if 

they degenerate. 
The baser is he, coming from a King, 

Who shames his Hope with Deeds degenerate * ; 
The mightier Man the mightier is the thing 

That makes him honor'd, or begets him Hate; 

For greatest Scandal waits on greatest State. 

1885. guilt. 

In yielding to a vicious appetite, 

A momentary Joy gives years of Pain, 

And hot Desire converts to cold Disdain ; 

# " Oderint dum metuartt. , ' Detestanda Vox \ JIGR. 

pedecorant bene nata Culpa?, CIC. 



XTarqulnani APPENDIX. 213 

LucreceS\ 

Poor Chastity is rifled of her store, 

And Lust, the thief, far poorer than before. 

1886\ COVETOUSNESS. 

Those that much covet are of Gain so fond, 
That oft the}' have not that which they possess *- 

They scatter and unloose it from their Bond ; 
And so by hoping more they have but less. 
Or, gaining more, the Profit of Excess 

Is but to surfeit, and such Griefs sustain, 

That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich Gain. 

1887. VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. 

The Aim of all is but to nurse the Life 

With Honor, Wealth, and Ease in waning Age: 

And in this Aim there is such thwarting Strife 

That one for all, or all for one, we gage : 

As Life for Honor in fell Battle's rage : — 
Honor for Wealth ; and oft that Wealth does 
The Death of all, and all together lost. [cost 
So that in vent'ring all we leave to be 
The things we are, for that which we expect : 
And this ambitious foul Infirmity 
In having much torments us with defect 
Of that we have : — so then we do neglect 

The thing we have ; — and all for want of Wit 
Make something nothing by augmenting it. 

188S. pity. 
Soft Pity enters at an iron gate. 

1889- grief — Society in it. 
Companionship f in Woe doth Woe assuage; 

* From him which hath not shall be taken away even that which 
lie hath. ■ 

t So'amen miseris Socjos habuisse Doloris, 



214 APPENDIX. [Tarquin and 

Iuucrece.] 

1890. guilt — suspicious of alL 
Where then is Trust if there is no Self-Trust I 
The Guilt being great the Fear doth still exceed. 

1891- has no true Gains. 

What win the Guilty gaining what they seek ? 

A Dream, a Breath, a Froth of fleeting Joy ! 

For one sweet Grape who will the Vine destroy ? 
Who buys a Minute's Mirth to wail a Week I 

Or sells Eternity to get a Toy ? 

1892. prayers —for impious Purposes,, 
© An impious Prayer is worst Impiety. 

1893. wars—; for Gain or Ambition. 

Slaves for Pillage fighting, 
Obdurate Vassals, fell Exploits effecting, 

In bloody Deaths and Ptavishments delighting, 
Nor Children's Tears, nor Mothers' Groans re- 
Swell in their Pride. [specting, 
I894. night Sf t> ARKXESS-Fears accompanying. 
t Things which o'erpower with terrible surprize,* 
Night's Shadows, are the weak Brain's forgeries. 

1895. desire — inordinate. 

% t Uncheckt Desire will hear no heedful Friends : 
Only he hath an eye to gaze on Beauty, 
And dotes on what he views, 'gainst Law and Duty. 

1896. parents Respect due from them to 

Character, for the sake of their Children. 
Parents, bequeath not to your Children's Lot 

The Shame that from them no Device can take, 
The Blemish that will never be forgot. 

1897. confidence — Breach of it. 
Mudjiot the Fountain that gave Drink to thee. 

1898. injuries — —what to be avoided most 

especially. 
Mar not what marred can never be amended. 



[Tarqulnand APPENDIX. 215 

Liter ece?^ 

1899- 
If a Wife's Name be Theme for Disputation, 
The Branches of another Root are rotted, 
And undeserved Blame to him allotted. 

1900. self — we should judge as if the Act in 

Question were that of another. 
f>£ When springs the first Temptation to a Crime, 
Think but how vile a spectacle it were 

To view thy purpos'd Trespass in another ; 
Men's Faults do seldom to themselves appear, 

Their own Transgressions partially they smo- 
ther : [Brother. 

This Guilt would seem death-worthy in a 
Think thus, and shun the approach of Guilt in 
O ! how are they wrapt in with Infamies, [time. 
That from their own Misdeeds askant their eyes. 

1901. VICE. 

>£ By Vice the Soul's pure Temple is defae'd : 
Her subjects with foul Insurrection * 

Have batter'd down her consecrated Wall, 
And by their mortal Fault brought to subjection 
Her Immortality, and made her thrall 
To living Death and Pain perpetual. 

1902. LOVE. 

Love's true Respect will poison false Desire. 

1903. ORNAMENTS. 

Of Chastity the Ornaments are chaste. 

1904. avariceWage; 

YOUTH fl/l^PRODIGALITY. 

The aged Man that coffers up his Gold: [Fits, 
Is plagued with Cramps and Gouts, and painful 
And scarce has eyes his Treasure to behold ; 

* Qiai»<iuisyllable. 



2\6 APPENDIX. [T.rquin arid 

But still like pining Tantalus he sits, 

And useless banns the Harvest of his wits ; 
Having no other Pleasure of his Gain 
But Torment that it cannot ease his Pain. 
So that he hath it when he can not use it : 

And leaves it to be master'd by his Young ; 
Who in their Pride do presently abuse it*; 

Their Father was too weak, and they too strong. 

1905. alloy — universal in this probationary 

World. 
Unruly Blasts wait on the tender Spring ; 

Unwholesome Weeds take root with precious 
Flowers : 
The Adder hisseth where the sweet Birds sing: 
What Virtue breeds, Iniquity devours. 
We have no Good that we can say is our's, 
But ill-annexed Opportunity, 
Or kills his Life, or else his Quality. 

1 906. time — his Poxver and Office. 

§ Time's Glory is to calm contending Kings ; 
To unmask Falsehood, and bringTruth to light : 

To stamp his awful Seal on aged things : 

To wake the Morn, and centinel the Night : 
To scourge the Wronger till he render Right. 

To ruinate proud Buildings by his Hours, 

And smear with Dust their stately golden Towers. 
1907. E m 1 x e N c TL-Fautts and Defects conspicuous* 

The Moon being clouded presently is miss'd, 

* Up Nsog, uXKu nrirqq. NiTy, yr^aq^ 



[Tarquinand APPENDIX; 217 

Lucre ce.~\ 

But fainter Stars may hide them when they list. 
Gnats are unnotie'd wheresoever they % : 
But Eagles gaz'd upon by every eye. 
The Crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire, 

And unperceiv'd fly with the filth away ; 
But if the like the snow-white. Swan desire, 

The stain upon his silver down will stay. 

190$. pedantry — -fake Philosophy. 
O idle Words, servants to shallow Fools; 

Unprofitable Sounds, weak Arbitrators ! 
Busy yourselves in skull-contending Schools ; 

Debate, where Leisure serves, with dull Deba- 

1909. death welcome to the unhappy. [tors. 
When that is gone for which we sought to live, 

Wretched, no longer we have fear to die. 

1910. GRIEF. 

Grief best is pleas'd with Grief's society. 
True Sorrow then is feelingly surpris'd 
When with like feeling it is sympathiz'd. 

1911. suffering aggravated by Contrast. 
'Tis double Death to die in sight of shore : 
He ten times pines that pines beholding Food, 

1912. impatience rejects Good. 
Impatience grieves at what will do it good. 

iplS. grief — heightened by Contradiction. 
Deep Woes roll forward like a mighty Floo 
Which being stopt, the bounding banks o.'grfjqws. 
Grief dallied with, nor Law nor Limit kfrows; 

1914. impatien t of Pit as u re . 

A mournful Host ill brooks with merry Gu: 

19 1-3- beasts often milder than >J £ x . 
ft Who Hath observed them most, I 



218 APPENDIX. \Tarquinand 

Lucrece!\ 

Men turn wild Beasts*, and Beasts have gentle 

Minds. 
1 9 1 6. w o m a N -her Character contrasted with u a tf . 
X The gentle Sex to weep are often willing, 
. Grieving themselves to guess at others' smarts : 
Nor only drown their eyes, hut break their 
Hearts. 
For Men have marble, Women waxen Minds : 
And therefore they are form'd as Marble will ; 
Variously wrought by Force, or Fraud, or Skill.. 

1917. more ingenuous. 

In Men, as in rough o'er-grown Groves, remain 
Cave-creeping Evils that obscurely sleep : 
Thro' crystal Walls each little Mote will peep. 
Though Men can cover Crimes with bold stern 

Looks, 
Poor Women's Faces are their own Fault's Books* 

1913. ■ her Faults, as Society is constituted, 

chiefly caused by Man. 
No Man inveighs against the withered Flower; 
But chides rough Winter that the Flower has 
killU 
Not that devour'd, but that which does devour 
Is worthy Blame. O let it less be held 
Poor Women's Fault that they are so full fill'd 
With Men's Abuses. 

1919. cowardice insults the Dead. 
Cowardice boldly wounds a Body dead ||.. 

* Homo Homini Lupus. 

\\ TSSengov JZcopcc Aeovjog tfivfigi^cvri 



\Tarquinani APPENDIX. 219 

Lucrece.} 
10<?0. CASUISTRY of VICE. 

Sophistrv ever is to Guilt a Friend : 

And says a Fault unknown is as unacted ; 

Pretends that Wrong done to a great good End 
For lawful Policy remains enacted. ^ 

1021. DRAMATIC EFFECT. 

$To see sad Sights moves more than hear them 
Better the Eye interprets than the Ear. [.told; 

1922. grief — inxcard. 

J Tis but a part of Sorrow that we hear. 

1923. pretensions— have generally a shallow 

Bottom. 
Deep Sounds make lesser Noise than shallow 

1924. TIME H fO 1MPATIEXCE. | [tOldS. 

The agitated Mind 
Speed more than Speed but dull and slow still 
Extremity still urgeth such Extremes, [deems : 
1095 gui lt— -unconfirmed, thinks every one sees it. 
< They whose deep Guilt within their Bosom lies, 
Imagine every Eye beholds their Blame. 

1926 honesty — no Boaster. 
v Truth talks in Deeds : while others saucily 
Promise much speed ; performing leisurely. 

1027 

2 Honesty has it's Looks, not Words, for Gage, 
" 1928. physiognomy— it's Certainty. 

3 By Physiognomy we may behold 

' The Face distinctly cyphering the Heart, 
And in it Manners most expressly told . 

* Sggaras irrHant Animos, demissa per Aures, 
Quam nus sunt oculis subjecta fidehbus, 6> qu* 
Ipse sibi trariit Spectator. ** Utt ' 

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LucreceA 

1929- 4 

X In the mild Glances to calm Wisdom lent 
Beams deep Regard and smiling Government, 

1930. DESPAIR. 

2. Despair 
Shews Life imprison'd in a Body dead. 

1531. SELFISH NTESS. 

Why should the private Pleasure of some one 
Become the public Plague of manv more*? 

1932. J 

§ How many Lives one Man's wild Will confounds ! 

1933. HYPOCRISY. 

The Art of deep conflrm'd Hypocrisy 
Can entertain a shew so seeming just, 

And therein so insconce it's secret Evil, 
That Jealousy itself can not mistrust. 

»t- 19 u 34 ^ BEAlJTY ^naturally dissociated from 
1 is by Corruption and not natural [Goodness. 

In a fair Form when dwells a Mind of 111. 
J 93 5. time— appears long in Grief. 

Short Time seems long in Sorrow's sharp sus- 

*vi i'w 1 , [taining. 

Though Woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps; 
And they wha watch see Time how slow it creeps. 

1937. grief— sometimes lightened by Reflection 
that xve are not the greatest Sufferers. 
Some from the feeling of their Grief are wrought 

By deep surmise of other's Detriment f. 
It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd 
To think their Dolors others have endur'd. 

* Delirant Reges, ptectuntur Achiri. 

f Aliorum Mala aliquando intut*e ut melius feras tua. 



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193&. CLEMEKCY-/a&e. 

§ With-holding Justice feeds Iniquity*. 

1939. children — Likeness to the father* 
§ Oft in the Child the Father's Image lives f- 

1940. succession natural. 

% The old Bees die ; the young possess their Hive. 
Yet oft stern Death makes Conquest of the 
strong, 
And leaves the faltering feeble Souls alive. 

1941. suffering — none unnecessarily to It 

inflicted on ourselves or others. 
Do Wounds help Wounds, or Grief heal grievous 
Is it Revenge to give thyself a Blow ? [Deeds I 

1042. CHIVALRY. 

It is a meritorious fair Design 
To chase Injustice with defensive Arms. 

1943. [Harms. 

Knights by their Oaths should right fair Ladifi " 



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SONNETS AND MISCELLANIES. 

1944, COMMUNICATIONS — EVIL. 

t Wherefore should Virtue with Infection live, 
And with her Presence grace Impiety ? 

1945. PAIN-T, 

§ Why should false Painting imitate the Cheek, 
And steal dead seeming for a living hue ? 

Why should pure Beauty indirectly seek 
Roses of Shadow ; since her Rose is true ? 

* Culpam Poena preroat Comes. 

t Tixjxw Ss Tvvxncsg BoiKojcc Tskvx 
Yovivnv. HES. 

Laudantur simili prole Puerperal HOR. 

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1946. BEAUTY. • 

Beauty in holy antique hours was seen 
Tithout all ornament; itself, and true*. 

1947. 
Who can see farther than the Eye hath shewn, 
The;.* look into the Beauty of the Mind. 

1948. LIFE. 
Like as the Waves make toward the pebbled 
So do our Minutes hasten to their end jj . [Shore, 

J949. time. 
Time doth transfix the Flourish set on Youth, 

And delves his Parallels on Beauty's Brow ; 
Feeds on the Rarities of Nature's Truth : 

And nothing lives but for his Scythe to mow. 

1950, 
§ What powerful hand can hold Time's strong foot 
Or who his spoil on Beaut} 7 can forbid ? [back? 

1951. MIND. 

The immortal Mind herself will fortify 

Against confounding Age's cruel Knife, 
That she be never cut from Memory. 

1952. BEAUTY VIRTUE. 

0, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem 
By that sweet Ornament which Truth doth 
give! 

The Rose looks fair : but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet Odour which doth in it live. 

The Canker- blooms have full as deep a die 
As the perfumed Tincture of the Roses ; 

* N>eds not \\\r. aid of foreign Ornament ; 
But is, when imadorn'd, adoin'd the most. THOMSON- 

Induimr, formosa • exuitur, ipsa Forma est. 

If Hares 
Fspiedem alterius velut Unda supervenit Undam, KG5U 



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Hang on such Thorns ; and play as wantonly 

When Summer's Breath their masked Buds 
discloses. 
But for their Virtue's only in their show, 

They live unmov'd, and unrespected fade; 
Die to themselves : — sweet Roses do not so ; 

Of their sweet Deaths are sweetest Odours 
made. 
And so when Virtue graces Beauty's Youth, 
When that shall fade, by Verse distills it's Truth*. 

19-53. LOVE. 
Love thinks no 111. [Race. 

1934-. beauty in all Animals favourable to the 
Prom fairest Creatures we desire Increase. 

19-55. life and all it's Blessings — a Loan. 
Nature's Bequest gives nothing ; but does lendf; 
And being frank she lends to those are free. 

1950. AVARICE. 

Profitless Usurer ! why take to Use 

So great a sum of sums ; — yet can'st not live ! 

1957. a ceo u xt — think of the final. 
J Think still, when Nature calls thee to be gone, 
What acceptable Audit thou mav'st give. 

19-58. usur i r — Interest beneficial to both is not so. 
That Use is not forbidden Usury 
Which happies those that pay the willing Loan [|. 

1959. SYMPATHY. 

Sweets with Sweets war not ; Joy delights in Joy. 

* This Allusion is the subject of a fine Italian Sonnet. 

f Dedit tibi Vitas, tanquam Pecuniae, Usuram : nulla 
pr re-muu Die. 

|j The best Statesmen and Legislators can say nothing 
bener on this Head. 



22* APPENDIX. {Sonnets end 

Miscellanies.] 

1960. HARMONY. 

§ Mark how each String, accordant to the other, 
Strikes musical by mutual ordering ; 

Resembling Sire, and Child, and happy Mother, 
Who, all in one, one pleasing Note do sing*. 

1961. AGE. 

J Age loves not that it's Years be strictly told. 

1962. PRAISE. 

Cautious they praise who purpose not to sell, 

f 1963. DISCONTENT With POSSESSION. 

Men are oft 
With best that they enjoy content the least. 
. 1964. love — it's Delicacy of Perception. 
To hear with Eyes belongs to Love's fine Wit. 

1965. poetry — sacred. 

I To sing Heaven's Praise requires no earthly 

1966. music and poetry. [Tongue. 
§Well Music and sweet Poetry agree: 

As well they may ; — the Sister and the Brother. 

1967. injury— /row those me love severest. 

It is greater Grief 
To bear Love's Wrong than Hate's known Injury. 

1968. ABSENCE. 

O Absence, what a Torment would'st thou prove, 
Wer't not that thy sour Leisure gave sweet leave 

To entertain the time with thoughts of Love. 
1 969 • t 11 u g 11 T — Swift and Comprehensive. 

§The nimble Thought can jump both Sea & Land.' 
1970. r e me d y — worthless which saves not Honor \ 

Well of that Remedy can no Man speak, 

That heals the Loss, and cures not the Disgrace. 

* This is the true Principle of Harmony, and of the fun- 
damental Chord; into \thich every String naturally resolves 
itspif, Vide Alemeert, Rousseau, Diderot, &c. 



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1971 . repentance inadequate without -Reparation. 
The Offender's Sorrow lends but weak Relief 
To Him that beareth strong Offence's Loss. 
1972. faults not excused by frequency in Others, 
That all Men have their Faults is no Excuse 
To authorize a Trespass by Compare. 

1973. FATHER. 

A Father takes delight 
To see his active Child do deeds of Youth. 

1974. painting — it's great object Character 

and Expression. 
+ Those Painters cunning want to grace their Art, 
3 Who draw but what they see, know not the Heart. 

1975. FAVORITES — COURT. 

Great Princes' Favorites their fair Leaves spread 
But as the Marygold in the Sun's eye ; 

And in themselves their Pride lies buried, 
For at a Frown they in their Glory die. 

1976. constancy — reciprocal ; how happy. 
Happy are those that love and are belov'd, 
Where they may not remove or be removed. 

1977. love — when declining — cold and formal, 
Love once converted from the thing he was, 
Finds Reasons of cold settled Gravity. 

1978. genius immortalizes. 

The Praise which Genius sings shall still find 
Even in the eyes of all Posterity. [room 

And keep the Record of Worth's Memory 
"Gainst Death and all. oblivious Enmity. 
1 979* slander aims at Excellence. 

Slander's choice Mark was ever yet the Fair** 

* Summa petit Livor. 



226 APPENDIX. [Sonnets and 

Miscellanies.] 

1980. rare x ess — heightens Pleasure. 
Therefore are Feasts so seldom and so rare, 

Since seldom coming, in the long year set, 
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, 
Or Captain-Jewels in the Carconet. 

1981. earth— the Body it's due. 

The Earth can have but Earth, which is her due; 
The Spirit, Heaven*. 

1982. love— true ; ifs Constancy. 
Love is a constant ever fixed Mark, 

That looks on Tempests, and is never shaken; 
It is the Star to every wandering Bark, 

Whose worth's unknown, although his height 
be taken. 
Love's not Time's Fool; though rosy Lips and 
Cheeks 
Within his bending Sickle's Compass come ; 
Love alters not with his brief Hours and Weeks, 
But bears it out e'en to the edge of Doom. 

1983. worth— ^ boastful. 

X Others for Breath of Words hold in respect; 
Worth for his dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. 

1984. FLATTERY and FR1EN DSHl'P how 

Every one that flatters thee [distinguisht. 
Is no Friend in Misery. 
Words are easy, like the Wind ; 
Faithful Friends 'tis hard to find. 

AiStgoc '%!&• soph. 



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Miscellanies.^ 

Every man will be thy Friend 
While thou hast wherewith to spend. 
But if store of Crowns be scant, 
No man will supply thy want. 
If that one be prodigal, 
Bountiful they will him call. 
*If he be addict to Vice, 
Quickly him they will entice. 
But if Fortune once do frown, 
Then farewel his great Renown : 
Thev that fawn'd on him before 
Use his company no more. 
He that is thy Friend indeed, 
He will help thee in thy need, 
If thou sorrow, he will weep ; 
If thou wake, he cannot sleep. 
Thus of every Grief in Heart 
He with thee doth bear a part. 
These are certain signs to know 
Faithful Friend from flattering Foe*. 

1985. wisdom a/* g? virtue rather self -cor rec* 

the than censorious, 
© The Wise and Good 
Are still with their own weakness best acquainted. 

1986. condolence — ill timed. 

t 111 do they when the Heart hath scap'd a sorrow, 
Who come in rereward of a conquered Foe. 

1987. calamity — great, renders insensible to 

smaller Evils. 
f Inferior strokes of 111, which once seem'd Woe, 
Compar'd with one great Loss will not seem so. 

* Plutarch has a Treatise upon these Signs; 



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1988. wisdom — her Independence. 

§t© A better State Sx« to the Wise belongs, 
Than that on any Humour which depends. 

1989. beauty — merely external — perniciouSi 
How like Eve's Apple does that Beauty grow, 
Where the sweet Virtue answers not the Shew ! 

1990. goo dx ess — ifs Characteristics, 

fl' They that have Power to hurt and will do none ; 
And Good, when most they do, forbear to shew : 
To Goodness warm; to all Temptation cold: 
They rightly do inherit Heaven's Graces, 
And husband Nature's Riches. 

1991- purity. 
I The Summer's Flower is to the Summer sweet, 

Tho' in few hours it grow> blossom, and die: 
But if that Flower with base Infection meet, 

The basest Weed outbraves his Dignity. 

1992. glory — corrupted by vice. 

The sweetest Praise turns sour by evil Deeds. 

1993. envy the unwilling Panegyrist of 

excellence />j/ its very Censure. 
t There are, whom Envy's tongue 
Cannot dispraise but in a kind of Praise*. 

1994. ABUSE. 

The hardest Knife ill us'd doth lose his Edge. 

199-5. PROGNOSTICS — of WINTER. 

Leaves turn to pale, dreading the Winter near. 
1 996. spring — universally enlivening. 
The Spring 
Hath put a Spirit of Youth in every thing j|. 

* Quern nemo culpaverit ut non simul laudet. 
fi Catonem Caesar ita reprehendit ut laudet. 

PLlN~8EC.35KttI.il. 

" And into all things from her Presence bteaUl'U 

" The Spirit of Love aad amorous JDe^ire." "P. L. 



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Miscellanies.~\ 

1997. poetry too sacred a Gift to be misapplied. 
Own'st thou the heavenly influence of the Muse, 
Spend not thy Fury on some worthless Song ; 
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects Light. 

1998. time — redeem. 
Redeem Time idly spent*. 

1999* virtue — immortal 
Virtue survives and can not know Decav, 
But makes Time's Spoils despised every where, 

2000. truth and BEAUTY. 

Truth needs no Colour : Beauty no Pencil, 

2001. love — it's Tautology. 
Love fondly dwells on Repetitions. 

His Songs and Praises all alike we find, 

Kind is my Love to-day ; to-morrow kind : 
Still constant m a wond'rous Excellence. 

Therefore Love's Verse to Constancy confin'd, 
One thing expressing, leaves out Difference, 
Fair, kind, and true is all his Argument, 

Kind, fair, and true, varying to other Words 5 
And in this Change is Love's Invention spent, 

Three Themes in one, which wond'rous scope 

2002. love — not ostentatious. [affords. 
§'Tis not less Love if less the Shew appear : 

That Love is merchandis'd whose rich esteeming 
The Owner's Tongue doth publish every where. 

2003. f r e q u e x c y — if s Effect on Pleasure, 
The Nightingale in Summer's front doth sing ; 

And stops his pipe in growth of riper days : 
Not that the Summer is more pleasant now 
Than when his mournful Hymns did hush the 
Night ; 

* Redeeming the Time ; know ing that the Pays are evil PAU L* 
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230 APPENDIX. [&«.** and 

Miscellanies . ] 

But that wild Music burdens every Bough, 

And Sweets grown common lose their dear 

2004. TIME ETERNITY. [Delight. 

«[ All soon is past but what shall have no End*. 
2005 . fortu n e — accused of our own Misconduct. 
tO Fortune we make 
The guilty Goddess of our harmful Deeds. 

2006\ mind — alone sees. 

I The Eye is in the Mind: 

And that which seems. to serve to go about, 
Mind being absent, is in function blind, 

Seems seeing; but effectually is out. 
For it no Form delivers (Mind apart) 

Of Birds or Flowers, or Shape which it doth lack, - 
If Mind of it's quick Objects have no part, 

Nor it's own Vision holds what it doth iakejf, 

2007- evil — it's Use. 
X Good by Conflict of Evil is made better §. 

£008. sorrow. 

How hard true Sorrow hits. 

2009- crime— worse than disgrace. 
«f[ "Pis better to be vile esteem'd than vile. 

2010. calumny recoils on itself. 
Goodness is still itself — and they who level 

Abuses at it, reckon up their own. 
That still is straight, however they be bevel: 

It's Deeds by their bad thoughts must not be 
shewn. 

* Well might the great Poet doubt — " Res 31 qua diu mortalibos 
ulla." VIRG. 

lj "the Eye sees no more when mental attention is withdrawn, than 
a Camera Obscura sees without the Eye. A great and leading metaphy- 
seal truth, established by physical experience. 

§ This too is another of the greatest and most leading Truths of 
Metaphysics and Ethics. 



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2011. EQUANIMITY. 

Of The steady Mind maintains it's Constancy: 
Not wondering at the present, or the past. 

2012. repentance — Death-bed.. 

t Hope -not, procrastinating Fools of Time, 
To die to Goodness, having hVd to Crime", 

2013. virtue — invulnerable. 

Hence thou suborned Informer I a true Soul, 
When most impeacht, standsleastinthyControuL 

20 14„ des i r e — criminal and inordinate, 
§ The Expence of Spirit in a Waste of Shame, 

Is Lust in Action : and till Action, Lust 
Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of Blame; 

Savage, extreme; rude ; cruel; not to trust. 
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight : 

Past Reason hunted ; and no sooner had, 
Past Reason hated as- a swallow'd Bait 

On purpose laid to make the Taker mad- 
Mad in pursuit ; and in possession so : 

Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme* 
A Bliss in proof; and prov'd, a very Woe: 

Before, a Joy propos'd ; behind, a Dream ||. 
All this the World well knows. — Yet few can well 
Shun the false Heaven that leads men to this HelL 

2015. prejudice and partiality. 
§ Men oft what best is take the worst to be, 

2016. 
Eyes are corrupt by over-partial looks. 

2017. inconstancy — if s Punishment. 
When from things true the Heart and Eyes have 
To a false plague they often are transferr'd. [err'd, 

* And this one of the most important of Theological. 
Q Before him is as the Garden of Eden; and behind a ^desolate Wil- 
derness. JOEL. 

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532 APPENDIX. [Sonnets and 

Miscellanies.] 

2018. truths — unwelcome — rarely are told. 
Life-loving sick Men, when their Deaths are near, 
No News but Health from their Physicians know**. 

2019. SLANDER. 

JNlad Slanderers by mad Ears believed be. 

2020. love. 

It is the Heart that loves. 

2021. LUXURY. 

Why dost thou pine within and suffer Dearth, 
Painting thy outward Walls in costly Gay; 

Why so large Cost, having so short a Lease, 
Dost thou upon thy fading Mansion spend ? 

2022. love. 

Love is as a Fever, longing still 
For that which longer nurseth the Disease, 
Feeding on that which doth preserve the 111, 
The uncertain, sickly Appetite to please, 

2023. love, and reason. 

When Reason is Physician call'd to Love, 

Angry that his Prescriptions are not kept, 
He leaves the Patient. . 

2024. love partial. 

The worst in what we love all other's best exceeds, 

2025. encr eased by fear of Loss. 

It makes Love more strong 

To love that well which we must leave ere long. 

2025. it's Constancy. 

Unchanging Love 

Weighs not the Dust and Injuries of Age; 
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place ; 

But makes Antiquity for aye his Page. 

* No one dar'd speak of Death to Henry VIII. or Elizabeth. 



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JHiscelIanies."\ 

2027. DIAL. 

H The Dial shews how precious Minutes waste, 

2028. KIHDNESS. 

Soft Kindness is a Jewel 
In any Woman, and becomes her well. 

2029. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

The Eves are in strong Passion no where fixt ; 
The Mind and Sight distractedly commixt. 

2030. LUXURY. 

X Proud Luxury lets not it's Bounty fall 

Where Want needs some, but where Excess begs 

2031. virtue and beauty. [all. 
Virtue and Beauty give a Life and Grace 

To Appertainings and to Ornaments : 
Accomplisht in themselves ; not in their Case. 

2032. ELOQUENCE. 

2. Some there are 
Who on the tip of their persuasive Tongue 

Carry all Arguments and Questions deep ; 
And Replication prompt, and Reason strong, 

To make the Weeper smile, the Laugher weep. 
They have the Dialect and different Skill, 
Catching all Passions in their Craft of Will. 
That in the general Bosom they do reign 
Of Young and Old, and either Sex enchant*. 

2033. disgrace. [nndt, 
Who seek their Shame, that Shame are sure to 

* The Poet, unintentionally, has drawn here his own Pic-jre, Mr, 
Coleridge has applied it with appropriate felicity to one of the few Men 
to whom it ever could : I . Mr. Sheridan. 

f The Transtetior ' Epistles were claimed by Heywoed, 

also an Actor, cs hisowt n ad therefor* »rs before 

the Death of Shakespeare rges Jaggard with having j 

Kfeht them *as Shakespeare's ■< t well he 

for Shakespeare seems u xJuctions, agreeably to 

x 3 



23* APPENDIX. [Sonnets and 

Miscellanies .] 

2034. ARTIFICE. 

Art hides the Smoke 'till Time display the Fire, 

2035. REPENTANCE. 

3J Repentant Thoughts in time 
Bear witness where unguarded Looks transgress* 

2036. love influenced by Opinion. 

5£ Love oft beholds first with the Eyes of Fame. 

2037- PERFECTION. 

2. More than Report can promise, Fancy blazon, 
Is true Perfection. 

2038. wine. 

§ Add Wine to Love, and you add Fire to Fire. 

2039. BEAUTY. 

f Let it not be said, 
Beauty and Chastity at variance are, 
And hard to find one Woman chaste and fair. 

2040. DANGER. 

Less is the Danger mostly than the Fear. 

2041. pospitality — Abuse of it. 
Cruel and shameless who licentiously 
The Laws of Hospitality despise. 

Is perjur'd Wrong the Recompence of Right ? 

2042. caution. 

Too much Trust hath damag'd such 
As have believ'd Men in their Loves too much. 

2043. man — his Deceit fulness . 

The general Tongue of Woman saith 
Men's Words are full of Treason, void of Faith. 

Mr. Capell's Comparison, as the Ostrich leaves her Egcs in the sand 
with very little care : and this might encourage interpolation. 

This Note refers to Aphorisms from 2o33 to 2o35 inclusive. And if 
things of such inferior value were claimed, we have the more confidence 
as to what is not claimed, and which bears too the peculiar Shakespe- 
arian Stamp. 



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Miscellanies . ] 

2044- . i*i at ron — her Conduct, 
§ If others sin, and hours in pleasure waste, 
At least be found the sober Matron chaste*. 
2045. GiFTs-zi;,W their greatest Recommendation* 
Gifts then seem 
Most precious when the Giver we esteem. 

2046. SEDUCTION. 

§ False Blandishments have power chasteThoughts 
to change. | 

2047. FORBEARANCE Or SELF-DENIAL. 

The greatest Virtue of which wise men boast 
Is to abstain from 111 when pleasing most. 

2048. credulity natural as to what we nnsh< 
In pleasing Things we call not Fame a Liar, 
But give that Credit which we most desire. 

2049. L a B o u r — misapplied. 

What profits it the barren Sands to plough ? 

2050. g U 1 lt — it's Apprehensiveness. 
Those who are unaccustom'd to offend 
Think every Eye fixt on their guilty Cheek. 

^051. beginnings — wrong — to be opposed. 
A Flame new kindled is as easily quencht. 

2052. traveller. 

A Traveller's Love is like himself, unstay'd. 

2053. corrupter should not be the accuser. 
Consider what it is, forgetful Lover, 

To be Sin's Author, and Sin's sharp Reprover. 

2054. hope- — deceitful. 

Good Hopes engage 
Themselves so far they fail in the presage. 

r\ ry 

* To bear and forbear-- a y£%S0"/^d£/ ytott a7TSyJ(T^ ' Oii 

is a great part of moral Philosophy : the active Virtues make anothej : 
and uie contemplative a third. 



236 APPENDIX, [Sonnets and 

Miscellanies.] 

2055, appearances -not too readily to be trusted '. 
We see the Ships that in the Main are tost*, 
And many times by Tempest wreckt and lost, 
Had ? at their launching from the Haven's Mouth, 
A smooth Sea, and a calm Gale from the South, 

2056. love — not limited by Distance. 

In Love 
Hearts remote are not asunder. 

2057. life — it's Shortness. 
Think how brief the Life of Man 

Runs his erring Pilgrimage ; 
That the stretching of a Span 
Buckles in his Sum of Age f. 

* This too is one of the Thoughts which have been beau- 
tifully expresst in Italian Poetry. 

f This is part of a Poem inserted in " As You Like It" 
That these minor Poems of Shakespeare should be com- 
paratively so little known and admir'd, here at least, in his 
own Country, (Tor it seems to be otherwise in Germany) 
may be wonder'd. — They have the faults, it is true, of his 
greater Compositions : but they have a splendid and ample 
portion of Shakesperian Excellence. Sweetness, Grace, Ori- 
ginality, Energy, and Wisdom. Yet it is not meant to be 
denied that in some of them the effect gains by taking the 
purer part detacht from surrounding Dross. However, if a 
Commentator on Poems like these could be represented as 
cultivating a barren Soil with a golden Plough and an ivory 
Spade, it had been better that a Fancy so dazzled with the 
Tools had been accompanied with a Judgment to discern 
the real Treasures of ;he Sfcil; thus strangely accus'd of 
Barrenness, 



SPICILEGIA TERTIATA. 



*Ti$ our Aim 
u To lose no Sfiark of that immortal Flame? 



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205S, FORTITUDE. 

JiN" all Emergencies play the Man. 

2059- SYMPATHY. 

O It is a powerful motive to assist others, that 
Our case is as their's*. 

2060. HYPOCRISY. 

X t Hypocrisy 
With fairest Colours paints the foulest Ends. 

2061. fortitude native. 

f Firm is the Fortitude infus'd from Heaven ; 
And mild as firm. 

2062. PROVIDENCE. 

O Ail Good ascribe to Providence divine. 

* Noni ignara Malis miseris succurrere disco. VIRG. 



23S SHAKESPERIAN [Tempest. 

2063. "EDUCATION. 

HfThe Great have this Misfortune: — to have 
Tor vainer hoars and Discipline less careful, [time 

2064. COMPULSION. 

© Most wretchedly corrupted is that Nature 
Which Stripes may move, not Kindness. 

2065. 
2fl Natures there seem, but none are truly such, 
Which any print of Goodness will not take. 
Being capable of all 111. 

2066. GRIEF. 

Grief is Beauty's Canker. 

2067. conscience. 

X Coward is a Conscience 
Possesst with Guilt. 

2068. credulity. 

2t Beware thou be not 
An Advocate for an Impostor. 

2069. TRAVELLERS. 

Many vouch t Rarities are almost beyond Credit. 

2070. confidence or presumption. 
An overweening Confidence will make 
Impossibilities seem easy things. 

2071. truth with gentleness. 

3§ Unpleasant Truths require some Gentleness 
And Time to speak them. — Do not rub the sore 
When you should bring the Plaster. 

2072. THEORIES^. 

4f False Theories would still by contraries 
Execute all things. 

2073. ANGER. 

© Do not adventure Discretion so weakly as 
to be angry for a slight cause. 



Tempest.] APHORISMS, 239 

2074. fortune often changed with our own 

Xt Ebbing men [Faults, 

Most often do so near the bottom run 
By their own Negligence, or Fear, or Sloth. 

2075. PHYSIOGNOMY, 

2§ The setting of the eye and cheek proclaim 
Matter of Moment inward. 

2076. CURIOSITY. 

Many in England who would not give a doit to 
relieve a lame Beggar, will lay out ten to see a 
dead Indian, 

2017* COWARDICE FOLLY. 

Cowardice thinks itself brave, aed Ignorance 
wise, when it finds, or imagines, any thing more 
cowardly or silly than itself* 

2078. MODESTY. 

H Modesty 
Is the best Jewel in a Virgin's Dower, 

2079. love exclusive. 

2. Love would not wish 
Any Companion in the World but one : 
Nor can Imagination form a Shape, 
Save the belov'd, to like of. 

2080. TEARS OF JOY. 

3. Affection 
Will weep at what it's glad of. 

2081. love — betrays itself. 

41 The more Love seeks to hide itself, the more 
It shews that it is Love. 

2082. modesty ingenuous. 

© True virtuous Modesty seeks not disguise, 
But trusts to plain and holy Innocence, 



240 SHAKESPERIAN [Tempest. 

2083. SURPRIZE. 

© Expected Good seldom appears so welcome 
As what comes by Surprize. 

2084. courtesy. [head. 
Whilst thou liv'st, keep a good Tongue m thy 

2085. PERSEVERANCE. 

21T See first that the design is wise and just: 
That ascertained, pursue it resolutely. 
Do not "for one repulse forego the purpose 
That you resolv'd to effect. 

2086. IRRESOLUTION. 

y{ Procrastination says, ""The next advantage 
We will take thoroughly." 

2087. FATIGUE. 

The' oppresst with travail can not use such 
As when they are fresh. [vigilance. 

£088. REPENTANCE. 

Repentance is Heart's Sorrow, 
And a clear Life ensuing! 

2089. GUILT. 

® Though it long sleep, the venom of great Guil> 
When Death, or Danger, or. Detection comes, 
Will bite the Spirits fiercely. 

2090. TRIALS. 

21[ Vexations duely borne 
Are but as Trials which Heaven's' Love to Man 
Sends for his Good. 

209 1 . promise — where to be trusted. 

3f With confidence, the Wise and Good once 

known, 
Performance of their Promise is expected. 

2092. where nat, 

The strongest Oaths are straw 
To the fire 



Tempest] APHORISMS. 2*1 

2093. 

Let those of fervid temper, 
Who would command their Passions shan occa- 
Or else good-night to Vows. [sion; 

209-dr . INFIRMITY^ ground of IXDULGEXCE. 

Bear with the weakness 
Of old and troubled brains. [sioned. 

2095. age miserable and depraved — hoic occa- 
O Where Discipline in Youth has been neglected; 
And timely Self-command, too oft it happens 
That as with Age the Body uglier grows, 
So the Mind cankers*. 

2096*. punishment and resentment— 
their true Limits. 
Repentance once produced, 
Sole Drift of all just purpose, Wrath should 
Not a Frown farther. [end : — 

2097. ambition — it's too frequent Tendency, 
2. Too often those who entertain Ambition 
Expel Remorse and Nature. 

2098 . p a t 1 e n c E-an universal Remedy if applied. 
3t Deem not of any Loss that Patience J 
Says it is past her Cure : but rather think 
You have not sought her help§. 

2099- PROVIDENCE GRATITUDE. 

4f On any III escaped or Good attain'd, 

Let us remember fcti-11, Heaven chalkt the way . 

That brought us thither. 

* Devereux, Earl of Essex, paid dear for a bitter and indeed cruel 
sarcasm ot this kind. 

$ Trisyll ; 

§ The common Proverb 'and it comes from those who have too fre- 
quent calls for the Experiment) says, that " Patience is a Cure for all 
Unhappily, where a very little of ii would suffice, it is most 
seldom Uij'd. 

v 



5242 SHAKESPERIAN [Two Gentlemen 

of VeronaJ\ 

2 1 00. W I s d o m — superhuman. 

t The wisest of Mankind have said of old, 
Perplext with human doubts, " Some Oracle 
i( Must rectify our Knowledge*." 

2101. optimism — if g true Base. 

f Time and our future Being shall resolve us 
Of all which now, involv'd in clouds and gloom, 
Seems Accident or 111. — Till then, be chearful, 
And think of each thing well. 

2102. FORGIVENESS. 

Who from Crimes would pardon'd be, 
In Mercy should set others free. 

2103. LOVE. 

K§ Affection chains Life's tender Days 
To the sweet glances of an honor'd Love. 

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. 

2104. 
If thou lov'st well, love still, and thrive therein. 

2105. ?nisplaced. 

2§ That Love avoid where Scorn is bought with 

groans ; 
Coy Looks with heart-sore Sighs ; one fading 

Moment's mirth 
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious Nights : 
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain ; 
If lost, why then a grievous labor won: 
However, but a Folly bought with Wit; 
Or else a Wit by Foil} 7 vanquished. 

2105. passion — deaf. 
It is but wasting time to counsel those 
Whom we find Votaries of fond Desire. 

* Thus Socrates, in that most remarkable Passage : FLAT. AI C. II. 



[Two Gentlemen APHORISMS. 24S 

of Verona.~\ 

2 1 07 . lov e — a great Transformer, 

t Love has strange power of metamorphosing. 
Makes men neglect their studies ; lose their time; 
War with good counsel ; set the World at nought : 
Makes Wit with musing weak ; Heart sick with 
thought. 

2108. time and trouble misapplied. 
Those who take pains to put a silly conceit to-. 

gether, deserve no other reward than to have it 
for their pains. 

2109. ILLIBERALITY. 

G A quick Wit has often a hard race to overtake 

2110. love. [a slow Puree. 

§ Wayward is foolish Love, 
That, like a testy Babe, will scratch the Nurse, 
And presently, all-humbled, kiss the Rod. 

2111. BEES. 

IT Injurious Man ! that feeds upon sweet Honey, 
And kills the Bees that yield it. 

2112. servants. 

© Servants see much when fancied to see nothing,, 

2113. EDUCATION — TRAVEL. 

f Parents of circumspect and active Mind 
Put forth their Sons to seek Preferment out : 
Some to the Wars, to try their Fortune there t 
Some to discover Islands far away: 
Some to the studious Universities. 

2114. 
§ 'Tis useful oft to perfecting a Man, 
That he be tried and tutor' d in the World. 

2115. COURTS — -CHIVALRY. 

t In days of Chivalry the Courts were Schools. 
There they did practise Tilts and Tournaments ; 
Y 2 



244 SHAKESPERIAN [ZW<GMfa*» 

Hear sweet Discourse ; converse with noble Minds ; 
And w r ere in eye of every Exercise 
Worthy of Youth and Nobleness of Blood. 

2116. OBSTINACY. 

•f Passion the Obstinate, not Reason rules, 

For what they will they will ; and there's an End. 

2117. INSINCERITY — INDISCRETION. 

2. By the advantage of a weak Excuse, 
Or of a false, Exceptions oft are taken 
'Gainst that which otherwise were well allowed. 

2118. HYPOCRISY. 

Those who seem what they are not are no bet- 
ter than Counterfeits. 

2119. LOQUACITY. 

3. Those who have an Exchequer of Words, 
are often defective in every thing but Words. 

2120. youth — the Time for Improvement. 

4. Unhappy is the idle Truant, 
Omitting the sweet Benefit of Time, 
To cloathe himself with Angel-like Perfection*. 

2121. modes t y — affected. 

5. Let those w T ho would not be thought false or 
Leave off Discourse of Disability. [weak, 

2122. love. 

6. Tales of Love weary all but those who love J. 

2123. not slighted with impunity. 

7. Not slight the Penance of contemning Love. 
2124-. of the vain to be suspected. 

8. The vain should learn to doubt whether they 
By their own Heart or by another's Praise, [love 

* Nunc adbibe puro 
Pectore verba, Puer. H0R. 

% So says Smith, in his " Theory of Moral Sentiments." 



{T<wo Gentlemen APHORISMS, 245 

of Verona^\ 

2125. love — it's animating Energies. 

p. Love will lend Wings as prompt as he lends 

2126. Yovth easily susceptible. [Wit* 

10. Tender incautious Youth is soon suggested. 

2127- heightened by Contrast. 

Repented Scorn makes after-Love the more, 

2128. ambition—/^/. 

Why Phaeton, for thou art Merotfs* Son, 
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly Car, 
And with thy daring Folly burn the World. 

2129. hopeless. 

Wilt thou reach Stars because they shine on thee ? 

2130. absence from those whom we love ? 

K§ Banisht from those we love 
Is self from self! A deadly Banishment. 
What light is light, those whom we love not seen ? 
What joy is joy, those whom we love not by ; 
Unless il be to think that they are by, 
And feast upon the shadow of Perfection ! 

2131. peais e — due to Merit. 
Good Things should be prais'd. 

2132. music 

§The Night's dead Silence 
Suits well with Music's sweet complaining Notes. 
2133, self- accusation — sometimes serves for 
a Disguise. 
t Some not repentantly cite petty faults, 
But as a colour for their lawless Lives. 
213 . necessity, 

f It is prudent 
To make a Virtue of Necessity. 

9 Son of a portal : ^p3tf/, ^ ence M^h 
T 3 



246 SHAKESPER1AN [Tivo Cmtkmen 

of Verona.^ 

2135. virtue and wisdom. 
| Virtue and Wisdom are too rirmly holy 
By Gifts to be corrupted. 

2136. obsequious xes s — too fond and excessive. 
Spaniel* like is the Love, the more 'tis spurn 'd, 
Which grows the more, and fawns submissive still. 

2137. love. 
Love will creep where it can not go. 

2138. 
Slight is that Love which can forget Love's tokens, 

2139. 
Love dreams on that by which it is forgotten, 
And doats on that which cares no Longer for it: 
'Tis pity it should be so contrary, 

2140. .love — it's weakness. 

Alas ! how Love can trifle with itself. 

2141. ifs partiality. 

Fond Love is oft indeed a blinded God. 

2142. delights in solitude. 

>£§ Love joys to sit alone, unseen of any, 
And to the Nightingale's complaining Notes 
Tune it's Distresses and record it's Woes. 

214-3. [Towns 

2. Love better brooks than flourishing peopled 
The shadowy Desert, unfrequented Woods f, 

2144. love abhors violence. 

3. Force is against the nature of true Love. 
2145. 

4. What Music is the Voice of those we love ! 

* A r>o<r, however, the most patient, forgiving, and affectionate of 
Animals, "is better quoted as an exampieof disinterested, constant, and 
courageous Affection, than byway of Reproach*. 

f This and the preceding are altogether l '•' the style and manner of 
fcetrarch. 



[T<wo Gentian APHORISMS. 247 

of Verona.^ 
214-6. CREDULITY. 

X§ Credulity too often entertains 

A Fox to be the Shepherd of the Lambs*. 

2147. ear. 

A light Ear sometimes makes a heavy Heart. 

2148. BEAUTY NEGLECT. 

2f Beauty neglected slights the Looking-glass ? 
And throws her Sun-expelling Masque away; 
When in it's Truth it sought to please but one. 

2149. INJUSTICE. 

To a bad purpose we can not be true, 
Unless w r e would be Traitors to ourselves. 

2150. SENTIMENT ASSOCIATION. 

2f A tender and a generous Sympathy 

Loves e'en things lifeless for their Owner's sake. 

2151. PEEVISHNESS. 

Xt Peevish Discontent 
From Fortune flies when most 'tis follow'd by it. 

2152. l o v £ — apparent real hatred. 

© t Provok'd that others are preferr'd to them, 
Some persevere more from Pcevenge than Love. 

2153. woman — Honour toward, 

2. The Man who bears an honorable Mind 
Will scorn to treat a Woman lawlessly. 

2154. DESPOTISM. 

>£ Lawless are they that make their Wills their 

2155. FRIENDSHIP— TREACHERY. [LawJ. 

2+ Treachery in Friendship is as the right-hand 
Were perjur'd to the bosom. 

2156. friendship always reconcileahle, 

3Ji Friends truly Friends can never long be Foe-; 

* prteclaruin Custodem Oviafn, ut aiunt, Lttpum. 
% Sic voloj sicjubeoj stet pro ratione Voluntas, 



248 SHAKESPERIAN {Merry Wives 

of Windsor .1 
2157. CENSORIOUS^ ESS. 

2t Those who have an eye upon their Neigh- 
bor's Follies should turn another upon the Register 
of Jtheir own. 



MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. 

2158. INJUSTICE is FOLLY. 

3t Build not your hopes on another's ground * : 
lest you lose your edifice disgracefully by mis- 
choice of the place on which you erect it. 

2159- experience dear wisdom. 

4f Experience is a Jewel. And it had need be 
so : for it is often purchased at an infinite rate J. 

2l60, WOMAN. 

5. What a Woman thinks in her heart she may 
effect, she will break her heart but she will effect. 

2\6l, VIGILANCE. 

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. 

2162. riches — their Influence on the vulgar. 
©tO what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults 

Look handsome in the rich, to sordid Minds ||. 

2 1 63 . passion indecorous in opposite Ex tr ernes. 
Be not as extreme in submission 

As in offence. 

2 1 64-. selfishness. 

K§ Many who have been eozen'd tbeirsel?§g 
would have all the world be cozen'd too. 

* Orrme quod solo Inasdificatur solo cedit. Inst. JI. 1 93 

i In this sense only it is called the Wisdom of ?ao]$. 

j} Scilicet Uxorem cum Tote, fidemqoe, & ami^o.t s 
Et Genus, & torn-ani, Regma Pecunia donat. J: "V. 



[M^surefor APHORISMS. 24£ 

Measure.] 

216.5. PRAYER. 

© Many never think of a Prayer till they 
doubt whether they have breath enough to say 
one. 

2\66. REPENTANCE. 

2. A small Excuse serves to delay Repentance. 

216/. luck — The Nonsense about if. 

3. Good Luck in odd numbers is the resource 
of those who can iind none in Reason or in good 
Conduct. 

2l68. talent —jnisapplied. 

Wit is made & Jack- 0'- La nt* to it's Possessor 
as well as others, when 'tis upon ill employment. 

2 1 69 . MARRIAGE folC d. 

X§ A forced Marriage brings along with it 
A thousand irreligious cursed hours. 

21/0. NECESSITY. 

What can not be eschew'd must be embraced. 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 

2 1 7 1 • counsel and clients. 
Good Counsellors lack no Clients J.. 

2172. 
ji © What Virtue ought not, that she can not do, 

2173. law and judge. 

2. The Law, and not the Judge, condemns the 

2174. modesty. [Criminal. 
Virtue herself may be a cause of Error, 

* Jack of Lanthora, or Ignis Fatiui?. 

$ We do not contend for the strict Universality of this Maxim. 

§ Ovk iyoo ere kJ-ivou . ccK?J 0' 7*1? 
Hokswg No^og* LYS. 



250 SHAKESPERIAN [AW«>- 

M.easure^\ 

And Modesty may more betray the sense 
Than Woman's Lightness. 

2175. prisons — Right and Duty of Inspection. 

3. When Charity and virtuous Feeling come 
To visit in their Prison afflicted Spirits, 

It is of common Right to let them enter. 

2176. REPENTANCE. 

4. A true Repentance shuns the Evil itself 
More than the' external Suffering or the Shame. 

2177. PRISONS — GAOLERS. 

fff Wise and benignant Policy looks to Prisons. 
In States which do not thus 'tis seldom when 
The steeled Gaoler is the Friend of Man*. 

2178. crimes — vicious Indulgence in them. 
When Vice makes Mercy, Mercy's so extended 
tThat for the Fault's Love is the Offender founded. 

2179. AMBASSADORS. 

ft Wise and well authoriz'd Ambassadors 
Keep their Instructions with discreet Observance, 
And hold them ever to the special Drift ; 
Though sometimes as to secondary Objects 
They yield a point, and blench from this to that, 
As Cause doth minister. 

2180. testimony — it's Credit. 

Merely an Oath, 
However strong and positively urg'd, 
Cannot weigh down against a Worth and Credit 
That's seal'd in Approbation t. 

* Mr. Howard observes, in big ' View of Prisons' (and this seem* 
most to have taken place in the latter Surveys) that he found very many 
benevolent Gaolers. It was natural that he should : for his Visits and 
Observations could not but lead more and more to the appointment of 
proper Persons. 

t That Testimony is to be weigh' d rather than counted is most strictly 
true. At the same time, presum'd Credit from Rank and Situation is 
frequently pusht too far. 



[Comedy of APHORISMS. 251 

Errors?^ 

2181* laws — Venal Less efficacious where 

numerous and severe. 
Xt Where Laws and Punishments are in Excess, 
In such a State you find Laws for all Faults, 
But Faults increasing still : — while the strong 

Statutes, 
(Too strong in ordinance, in effect too weak,) 
Stand like the forfeits in a Barber's Shop, 
As much in mock as mark. 

2182. CORRUPTION. 

2. Reform or Ruin must o'ertake that State 
In which Corruption in a baneful ferment 
Boils till it over-runs. 

2183. LIEEL — PUBLIC. 

Strong Truth is oft held Slander to the State** 

COMEDY OF ERRORS. 

2184. death as a Punishment \ 

The Doom of Death ends Woes and all. 

2185. CHILDHOOD— COMPASSION. 

© The Ills of Childhood waken our Compassion 
The more as it is ignorant what to fear. 

2186. PARENTS. 

2. Parents oft cherish most the latter born. 

2187. eye. 

K The Eye will follow where the Care is fixt. 

* It i* certain that the Liberty of the Press has no Enemy which 
more endangers it than Licentiousness. At the same time a wis*? and 
good Government will rather endure it's Licentiousness, great as the 
Evil of it is, than risque any injury to it's salutary Freedom ; eince 
there is such exceedingly great and urgent Danger lest in weeding up 
the Tares they root up the Wheat also. Still hardly any tiling "can 
be more criminal than wanton Misrepresentation or Slander for 
party purposes. Indeed, very unwise and mischievous are mrlainmatory 
and exaggerated statements' even of Abuses really existing . and wnick 
therefore ought to be stated ; but with temper and fairness. 



'ZjZ SIjAKESPERIAN [Comety of 

Errors.] 
2188. AFFLICTION CONSOLATION. 

© Never on Earth Calamity so great 
•As not to leave to us, if rightly weigh'd, 
What would console 'mid what we sorrow for. 

2139. AFFECTION PRUDENCE. 

52. Prudence should have the Guidance of Affec- 
Without it, by the excess of Love itself [tion. 
The Loss is hazarded of that we love. 

21Q0. SINGULARITY. 

>£ Some Spirits hardly ever meet their like. 
These in the World are as a Drop of Water 
Should in the Ocean seek another Drop. 

2191. J est — unseasonable. 

© Beware of Jesting when 'tis not in season. 

2192. LICENTIOUSNESS. 

A head-strong Liberty is lasht with Woe. 

2193. order universal. 

There's nothing situate under Heaven's eye 
Eat hath it's Bound : in Earth, in Sea, and Sky, 

2194. UNKINDNESS. 

2. Unkindness blunts quick Wit and wastes 
sweet Beauty. 

2195. LOVE COMPLIANCE. 

X § Who would learn Love must practice to obey. 

12 19&- wealth and power commonly exact 
much Observance. 
The rich and powerful haughtily require 
That those who jest with them know their aspect 
And fashion their demeanor to their looks. 

2 1 97 . reasons for every thing. 
Every why hath a wherefore *. 

* See the Passage of HUDIBRAS before cited. 



[Comedy of APHORISMS. 25$ 

Errors.~\ 

2198. HUSBAND — WIFE. 

X The Husband is the Elm, the Wife the Vine. . 
If aught possess him from her, it is dross 
Usurping Ivy, Briar, or idle Moss ; 
"Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion 
Infect the sap. 

2199- forbearance— has its limits. 

O Those are thought Asses who endure all 
wrongs, 

2200. HOSPITALITY-. 

Small cheer, 

AVith hearty welcome, makes a merry Feast *. 
220.1 . hus B a n d — should be tender of his Wife's 
Honor* 
X § Husbands, war not against your Reputation : 
Nor draw within the compass of suspect 
The' unvioiated Honor of your Wives. 

2202. J e s t s — -practical ; dangerous, 

© A silly Jest may stand in serious Cost. 

2203. vice — impudence in it. 

Be not thy tongue thine own Shame's Orator. .. 
What simple Thief brags of his own l)eceit \ 

2204, 
111 Deeds are doubled with an evil Word. 

2205. TEMPTATION. 

>£ § He who would not be guilty of self- wrong, 
Must stop his ears against a Siren s Song J. 

2206. ANTICIPATION. 

2§ Those who do wrong oft first begin to brawl* 

* Super omnia, Vultus 
Accessere boni. OVID. 

f Better is a Dinner of Herbs where Love is, than a 
atall'd Ox and Hatred therewith. PRCY, 

I Sirenum cantos & Circes Pocula nosti, 'R, 

2 



25* SHAKESPERIAN [<Wy</ 

£rrors.] 
2207- SERVANTS. 

3. f In all things lawful, though against his Will, 
His Master's Mind a Servant must fulfill 

2208. regret — Acknowledgement of merit. 

4. § Few Evils lost are wail'd when they are gone. 

2209. jealous y — passionate Undervaluings 
an effect of it. 

Far from her Nest the Lapwing cries away. 
2210. 
The Heart oft blesses where Words seem to 

2211. time, a thief. [curse. 
Time is a Thief, and steals * by Night and Day. 

2212. imagination — its double Power. 
Taney is Comfort oft; oft Injury. 

2213. caution. 
He that would eat with the Devil must have a 

f spoon. 
*"22T4*. ignorance of self. 
Fly Pride, says the Peacock +. 

2215 home. [Home, 

>£ Slander and Shame are oftenest found iron* 

2216. anger — not to be inflanid. 

© Anger and Frenzy must in part be humour'd. 

2217. quiet and recreation — necessary t& 

HEALTH. 

§ Sweet Recreation barr'd, what does ensue, 
But restless, dull, and moody Melancholy, 
Sister to grim and comfortless Despair ; 
And at her heels a huge infectious Troop 
Of pale Distemperatures and Foes to Life. 

• Singula de nobis Anni furantur euntes. HOR. 

f It has always been common to impute human faults a»d 
follies to other Animals. 



[Much Ado APHORISMS. 25$ 

mbout Nothing,"^ 

2218. disturbance— domestic. 

§ In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest, 

T would mad both Man and Beast to be disturb'd. 

2219. questions — ensnaring. 

2. Ensnaring Questions may betray the best 
To Censure and to undeserved Reproof*. 

2220. husband and wife. 

3. Husband and Wife to separate is ill. 

2221. injury — continued distracts . 

4. Continued Wrongs may make the Wisest mad. 

2222. evidence— moral grounds of doubt or 

disbelief in it. 
Ji We are not bound to believe a Denial merely 
because it is made. 

2223. mikd — Aberration of 

Age, or extreme Danger, will too often disturb 
the Reason. 

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 

2224. joy — excessive ; accompanied with Tears. 
f Such is the infirmity of our Nature, that 

extreme Joy can hardly shew itself without a 
badge of bitterness. 

2225. 

f In a generous Heart Tears are an overflow 
of Kindness : and there are no faces truer than 
those that are so washt f. 

2226*. opinion — fashion. 

© Many wear their Opinions according to the 
Fashion %. 

• Such is still sometimes the Abuse of cross-examination* 
f Mollissima corda 
Humano Generi dare se Natura fatetur 
Quz lacrymas dedit : hoec nostri pars optima sensus. JUV. 
$ ColligU et ponit temere, et mutatur in horas. HOR. 
22 



256 SHAKESPERIAN \Much Alo 

about Nothing^ 
2227 v THE WORLD — MANNERS. 

The Fashion of the World is to avoid trouble, 

2228. pain — its Abuse — pleasure. 
Trouble being gone Comfort remains. - 

2229. SWEARING. 

jk Swearers are apt to be forsworn. 

2230. stead in KSS-tobepractisd; not boasted. 
© Change never comes with a worse Grace, 

nor is ever more likely, than in those who have 
toasted themselves unchangeable. The Altera-* 
tion of such becomes a notable Argument for 
Ridicule. 

2231. confidence. 

2. None are more confident than those who 
are on the point of Failing. 

2232. affection. 

3. Affection will learn any hard Lesson that 
may beffefit its object. 

2233. LOVE LEISURE. 

Love is the Child of Leisure. 

2234. talks incessantly of its Object. 

4. A Lover is never tir'd of talking of the Ob^ 
ject of Affection. 

2235. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

Love's grief is known by his complection*. 

2236. PREAMBLE— prolix. 

What need the Bridge much broader than the 
flood. 

2237. RECONCILIATION. 

5. Ji Amity newly reconciled requires time and 
prudence to settle. 

* See the Story of Erasistratus, the Physician, in Plu* 
tarch's Life of Antiochus* 



[MuthAJ. APHORISMS. 257 

mbout Nothing,} 

2238. PRUDENCE. 

6. Prudence frames the Season for its Harvest. ! 

2239. SINCERITY. 

7. It were better to be disdain'd of all, than 
to steal Confidence and Affection by Deceit from 
any. 

2240. MALIGNITY, 

8. Malignity seizes in the happiest Events some- 
thing for a Model on which to build Mischief. 

2241. DISCONTENT. 

§ He is a Fool who betrothes himself to un- 
quietness. 

2242. PROPORTION. 

There is measure in every thing*. 

2243. love — m o dest. 
ji Love speaks low. 

2244. v i r t u e and the graces. 

X Ji Virtue and the Graces, however little 
disposed to shew themselves, will appear. 

2245. CONVERSATION. 

2. X It is a bad sign when Conversation is re- 
commended not by its Wit but its baseness. 

2246. IMITATION. 

§ We should follow our Leaders in every good 

thing ; and leave them when they lead to ill. 

2247. BEAUTY. 
Beauty is a Witch. 

2248. INADVERTENCE. 

Life has it's Accidents of hourly Proof, 
Which we mistrust not. 



Mejfa tx Tlx'/TXm 



z 3 



.-358 SHAKESPERIAN W*ck Ad, 

about Nothing."] 

© Anger strikes like the blind Man, and 
revenges on one the pain it feels from another. 

5250. misery creeps to solitude. 
K § The hurt Fowl creeps into ridges. 

2251. passion — self- dee eh ing . 

?. Love, or Resentment, puts the World into 
it's own person, and supposes all to think like 
itself of it's object. 

.2.252. BEAUTY — TEMPER. 

Beauty, with bad temper, is the infernal 
Ate in good Apparel. 

2253. love — when it springs out of Prejudice* 

2. When Love springs suddenly out of sup- 
pos'd dislike, it hides itself under the Masque of 
encreas'd Antipathy, 

2254. k a p p 1 n e s s — when greatest h as fewest 

WORDS. 

§ Those are but little happy who are able to 
sav how much. 
'2255. 

3. Perpetual Laughter is all Mirth and no 
Matter. 

2 '256. l o v e — impatient. 
Time goes on crutches till Love obtain his wish, 

2257. love — metamorphoses. .p 

4. Love is a great Transformer. 

2258. CHANGE — CONSTANCY. 

5. Appetite will alter ; Reason only is constant. 

2259. RIDICULE— DEFAMATION LIBEL. 

t Shall Quips and Sentences, and Paper-bullets 



* Ouod qnisque vitet nunqu^m bominl satis 
p4&£um est in noras. HOR. 



\Much Ado APHORISMS. 259 

about Nothing.'] 

of the brain, awe a Man out of his career ; or 
even discompose him in it * ? 

2260. FAVORITES. 

.§ Favorites, 
Made proud by Princes, will advance their pride 
Against the Power that bred it. Even as Honey* 

suckles, 
That ripen' d by the Sun to full luxuriance, 
Forbid the Sun to enter. 

226 1. love — can hardly consist with high self- 

conceit. 
X They whose Wit 
Values itself so highly, that to that 
All Matter else seems weak, can hardly love, 
Or take a shape or feeling of Affection, 
Being so self-endeared. 

2262. ridicule and detraction. 

2 f The sport of Ridicule, and of Detraction, 
Turns every Virtue to it's bordering fault, 
And never gives to Truth and Merit that [chase. 
Which Simpleness and true Desert should pur- 

2263. 
§ Carping is any thing but commendable. 

2264-. FAME. 

3. True Excellence earns Fame before it has it f. 

2265. scorn — dishonourable. 

4. No Glory lives behind the. back cf Scorn. 

2266. education —never to tantalize. 

Do not shew a Child his new Coat, and forbid 
him to wear it. 

* Convicia spreta exolescunt : si irascaris agnita videntur. 

TACIT, 
f Honor Premium Virtu lis. 



560 SHAKESPERIAN [Much AJ, 

about Nothing.] 
Q267. OPENNESS. 

Jit Where the Tongue speaketh as the Heart 
thinketh, there is Wisdom and Excellence ; or 
great Weakness, or Impudence. 

2268. patience — easily recommended. 
Every one can master a Grief hut he that has it. 

2269. contagion — moral. 
They that touch Pitch will be defiTd. 

2270. CORRUPTION. 

§ When rich Villains have need of poor ones, 
the Market of Corruption runs high. 

2271. inuendos — malicious. 

K Let not bad thinking wrest true speaking. 

2272. WIT — OSTENTATION of it. 

2. One should not wear one's Wit in one's cap. 

2273. EXCELLENCE the GIFT of GOD. 

Ji All Excellencies are Gifts that God gives. 

2274. grief — renders the Mind passive. 

K t In extreme Grief the Mind is so enfeebled. 
That any where the smallest twine may lead us. 

2275. remedies — desperate, 

2. To a strange 111 strangely men strain the Cure* 

2276. DEATH. 

]* W r e die to live *. 

2277* PATIENCE. 

Have Patience, and endure f* 

2278. grief — immoderate. 
X It is not wisdom when we second Grief 
Against ourselves. 

2279. &* voi® to reason with it nt first* 

§ Grief will not be patch t with Proverbs. 

* Mors Janua Vhx. 

f Pejferetobdura. HOR- 



\Much Ado APHORISMS. 261 

shout Nothing.] 

2280. g ri E F — easily admonisht by those who feci 

it not. 
It is a ready office to speak Patience 
To those who wring under the load of Sorrow; 
But few Men's virtue or sufficiency 
To be so moral, when he shall endure 
The like his-self. 

2281. courag e — inseparable from justice, 
In a false Quarrel there is no true Valour *. 

2282. RIDICULE. 

The Jests of Folly hurt not the Wise. 

2283. DISCOVERIES. 

What Wisdom can not discover, Folly some- 
times brings to light. 

2284. WIT AFFECTATION of it. 

X Affected Wit frightens Words out of their 
right senses, 

2285. love — itfs Sympathy. [and disliking. 
In Love there is much Sympathy of liking 

2286. COMMENDATION SELF. 

Those who praise themselves much, must ge~ 
nerally be content with their own witness of their 
being praiseworthy. 

2287. man. 

Man is a giddy thing f. 

2288. CONQUEST of SELF. 

+ If they succeed, true Conquerors are they 

Who war against unruFd Affections, 

And the huge Army of the World's Desires J. 

f Fortitudo est Virtus pro Justitia pugnans. CIC. 

f The Mot of this Play : " Varium et mutabile semper." 

VIRG, 
\ Major enim qui se quam qui fortissima vincit. 
M«enia : nee Virtus aitius ire potest, 



262 SH AKESPERIAN [Love's Labour 

Lost.] 

LOVES LABOUR LOST. 

2289. literature— Me ornament best becom* 

ing a court. 
ik A Court should be a little Academe. 

2290. abstinence. 

§ The Mind may banquet though the Body pines. 

2291. gluttony. 

Fat paunches have lean pates : and dainty bits 
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the Wits*, 

2292. philosophy. 

Kt The proper matter of this World's Delights 
Is thrown upon the gross World's baser slaves 
By the pure Spirit of Philosophy. 

2293. wisdom and learning. 

% Wisdom is like the Heaven's glorious Sun, 
That will not be deep-searcht by saucy looks: 

Continual Plodders rarely much have won, 
Save base Authority from other's Books, 

2294. LEARNING — it's AEUSE. 

Too much to know, is to know nought but Fame, 

2295. [Reading f, 
Jt Some few, well read, have reason' d against 

2296. PERSECUTION, 

Some tear the Corn up, and let grow the Weeds. 

2297. season — every thing best in it. 
§ Why joy in an unseasonable Birth ? 

In frozen Christmas why desire the Rose ? 

* Horace, among the Ancients, and one of the greatest 
of Men in Talents, Virtues, and Accomplishments, in our 
Days, may be taken as proofs, that these Corporeal Indica-* 
tions have their Exceptions. 

f See a very ingenious Letter of Annibal Carq : and 
the wonderful Discourse of Rous ska v. 



[Lavis Labour APHORISMS. 263 

Lost.] 

Or wish a Snow on May's warm flowery earth ? 
Best to like each thing that in Season grows *. 

22£)8 . st u d y — too apt to separate from Practice* 
Too apt is Study to be overshot : 
And while ambitiously it seeks to know, 
It doth forget to do the thing it should. 

2299. VIOLENCE. 

When Violence hath the thing it hunteth most, 
? Tis won as Towns with fire : so won, so lost. 

2300. study — makes time seem short. 
Jfc To Study three Years is but short. 

2301. CONVERSATION". 

Hear mildly, and laugh moderately* 

2302. hope. 

f Nothing more common than a high Hope for 
a low having. 

2303. PRETTINESS. 

Pretty, because little f. 

2304. refinement —false and frivolous . 

To be subtile upon a Nothing, is elaborately to 
shew oneself a Cypher. 

2305. PRIDE. 
Pride scorns to sigh. 

2306. complexion — not always a faithful 

Herald, 
Most immaculate white and red may master 
most maculate thoughts. 

2307. PRISONERS. 

© It is safest for Prisoners to say nothing. 

2308. love. [tempts, 
f How can that be true Love which falsely at- 

* Green Pease and Cucumbers in February \ 
f See Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful. 



26* SHAKESPERIAN [love's Labour 

Lost.] 

2309* 

Love's Disgrace is to be call'd Boy; his Glory 

to subdue Men. 

2310. beaut? — needs no Encomium . 

© Beauty no painted flourish needs of Praise* 

2311. PANEGYRICS. 

2. Excellence is less proud to hear it's Worth, 
Than others are to be accounted wise 

In lavishing their Wit in praise of her. 

2312. vtiT-^-illnatured, a great blemish, [power, 

3. Wit that spares none that comes within its 
Is no slight soil upon fair Virtue's gloss. 

2513. 
( § 111 natur'd Wit still withers as it grows *. 

2314. mirth— its limit* 

X Keep within limit of becoming Mirth, 

2315. OBSERVATION. 

2. The eye begets occasion for the Wit. 

2316. wit. 

3»§ Wit that's too hot, and speeds too fast, will 
2317- keason — liberal, its persuasiveness, [tire, 

© Who can withstand the force of liberal Reason ? 
2318. wits — captious. 

Wits will be jangling. 

2319- singing. [hearing. 

2. § Sweet Song makes passionate the sense of 

2320. susceptibility. 

3. In Love small qualifications betray those 
who would be betrayed without them. 

2321. OBSERVATION. 

4. Observation and Reflection is anticipated 
Experience. 

* Dicterium malum dicenti pessimum. 



[Love's Labour APHORISMS. 26$ 

Lost.] 

2322. courtesy — unmerited. 

Fair payment for foul words is more than due. 

2323. FLATTERY. 

Where fair is not, praise can not mend the brow. 

2324. SELFISHNESS. 

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise, 

2325. FIELD SPORTS. 

3. Benevolence will hardly praise a Sportsman 
for good shooting. 
232o\ wife. 

4. Pride makes Wives unpleasant. 
2327. OBSCENITY. 

5. Obscenity is vulgar. 
232S. PATIENCE. 

Many can brook the Weather that love not the 
Wind. 
2329- SCURRILITY. 

6. Avoid Scurrility. 

2330. LOQUACITY. 

A wise man is not loquacious*. 

2331. PEDANTRY. 

7. Pedantry has its Quotations for every things 
that neither embellish nor illustrate. 

2332. society. 

Society is the happiness of Life. 

2333. likeness— w a cause o/~ partiality. 
On« Drunkard loves another of the name. 

2334. inclination. 

f Inclination easily makes a green Goose a 
Goddess. 
2535. love — quickens genius, 
How Love can vary Wit. 

* Vir sapit qui panca loquitur. 
Defendk numerus 5 iuiicrsque urnbone phalanges* 
A d 



Z66 SHAKESPERIAN [LwtsLaUur 

Lost.] 

2336. error — hides itself in a multitude. 
§ None seem to offend where all alike do doat *• 

2337. hypocrisy — suffers in time. 

Comes one at last who whips Hypocrisy. 

2338. praise — suspicious. 

To things of sale a Seller's Praise belongs. 

2339. DEFECTIVE. 

Praise, too short, doth blot. 

2340. 13EAUTY. 

§ Like the Sun, Beauty maketh all things, shine. 

2341. HYPOCRISY, 
Evils soonest tempt 
Resembling Spirits of Light. 

2342. vice — self-deceiving. 

Vice still seeks quillets how to cheat the DeviL 

2343. 
© The 111 hunt out some Flattery for Evil. 

2344. love — animates and refines all the FacuU 
ties of the Heart. 
Never found leaden Contemplation out 
Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes 
Of beauteous Tutors have enricht men witht, 

2345. 
Other slow Arts entirely keep the brain : 
And therefore, finding barren Practisers, 
Scarce shew a Harvest of their heavy Toil, 
But Love, first learned in a Lady's eyes, 
Lives not alone immured in the brain ; 
But, with the motion of all Elements, 
Courses as swift as thought in every power, 
And gives to every power a double power 
Above their 'functions and their offices, 

* Ut Prseco ad merces populum qui cogit emendas 
Assentatores jubet ad lucrum ire. HOR. 



*W,ZaW APHORISMS. 267 

1 Lost.] 

2346. 
Love adds a precious seeing to the eye ; 
A Lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind : 
A Lover's ear will hear the lowest sound : 
Love's feeling is most soft and sensible, 
And proves the dainty Bacchus gross in taste. 

2347. 
For Valour is not Love an Hercules, 
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides : 
Subtile as Sphynx : as sweet and musical 
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ? 
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the Gods 
Makes Heaven drowsy* with the Harmony. 

2348. 
Never durst Poet touch a pen to write, 
Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs : 
And then his lines would ravish savage ears, 
And plant in Tyrants mild Humanity. 

2349- woman. 
The eyes of Women are Promethean fires : 
They are the Books, the Arts, the Academes, 
That shew, contain, and nourish all the World. 

2350. love. 

Revels and Dances, Masks and merry Hours, 
Forerun fair Love, strewing his way with flowers. 

2351. causes and effects. 
§ Sown Cockles reap no Corn f. 

2352. ILL STILE. 

§ Justice always revolves in equal measures. 

2353. conversation — its Excellency. 
Conversation should be pleasant without scur- 
rility, witty without affectation, free without in- 

* PIND. I. PYTH, 1,2. 

f What a man soweth, that also shall he reap. PAUL. 
Aa2 



26% SHAKESPERIAN [>™ ' Laku* 

Lost.] 

decency, learned without conceitedness, novel 
without falsehood *. 

2354. prolixity — affected. 

§ Do not draw out the thread of your verbosity 
finer than the staple of your argument. 

2355. PEDANTRY. 

§ Pedantry seems as if it had been at a great 
feast oi Languages, and had stolen the scraps. 

2356. obsequiousness and coquetry. 

© They are Fools who purchase nocking by 
unwisht Obsequiousness : and they are not much 
wiser who mock what they invite. 

2357. folly — adventitious the most extravagant. 
None are so surely caught when they are 'caught 
As Wit tuin'd Fool.- — Folly in Wisdom haicht 
Hath Wisdom's Warrant, and the help of School, 
And Wit's own Grace, to grace a learned Fool, . 

2358, 
The blood of Youth burns not with such excess 
As Gravity's revolt to Wantonness. 
' 2359. 

Folly in Fools bears not so strong a Note 
As Foolery in the Wise when Wit doth dote; 
Since all the power of it doth apply, 
To prove by Wit Worth in Absurdity. 

2360. wit —Female. 
The Tongues of mocking Welches are as keen 
As is the Razor's edge invisible. 

* Dr Johnson, with unusual and appropriate happiness 
of expression, has said, that thi- is u a finisht Description of 
" colloquial Excellence. It is very difficult to add any thing 
" to this character r»f Table-talk: and perhaps all the Pre- 
f< cepts of Castigiione will scare, be found to comprehend a 
" Rule for Conversation so justly delineated, so widely di- 
*-* latedj and so nicely limited." 



[MUs. Nigte, APHORISMS. $69 

Dream.} 

2361. PERJURY. 

X§ Nor Heaven nor Earth delights in perjur'd 

2362. politeness — False, [Men* 
2. False Courtesy gives undeserved Praise. 

2363. ADROITNESS. 

© Sometimes a moment happily decides 
That which long Process could not arbitrate. 

2364. love — made permanent only by esteem. 
Love by the Eye form'd wanders like the Eye; 
Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms ; 
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll 

To every varied object in his glance. 

2365. marriage — Hasty, 

Take not too short a time 
To make a World-without-end Bargain in. 

2366- BUFFOONERY. 

A gibing Spirit is nurs'd by that loose grace 
Which shallow laughing hearers give to Fools. 
Such jest's prosperity lives in the ear 
Of him that hears it; never in the tongue 
Of hun that makes it. 

2367. time — Dramatic. 
A Twelvemonth and a Day 
Is too long for a Play. 

MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. 

2368. parents and children. [Eyes; 
2f Children wish Fathers lookt but with their 
Fathers that Children with their Judgment lookt : 
And either may be wrong. 

2369. choice — compelled. 
Wretched, to cbuse Love bv another's eves ! 

2370. s pl en d o R — precarious. 

§ Bright Things oft come to quick confusion. 
a a 3 



270 SHAKESPERIAN [a*?*- ^ss***' 

2371. LOVE. 

® Sight is the Food of Love. 

237 2. BLINDNESS- -tvtiful. 

yi§ Some will not know what but theirselves 
all know. 

2373 L o v e — gives idea I value . 
Things base and vile, holding no quality, 
Love can transpose to form and dignity. 

2374-. love — partial, precipitate. 
Love's Mind of Judgement rarely hath a taste: 
Wings, and no Eyes, figure unheedy haste. 
And therefore is Love feign'd to be a Child, 
Because in choice he is so oft beguiTd. 

2375. punishment — extreme ; its origin. 
*i\§ Those who are frighten'd out of their Wits 

have no Discretion but hanging. 

2 376. WEATHE K—dainp ; rheumatic. 

§ What Time the Moon, the Governess of Floods, 
Pale, in her auger washes all the Air, 
Then rheumatic Diseases do abound *. 

2377. love. 
Love in idleness. 

237S. VIRGINITY. 

® Rich is the Treasure of Virginity. 

2379- confidence. 
Known Virtue bears the Privilege of Trust. 

23S0. Mi & mi 1 ace — happy. 
One Heart, one Bed, two Bosoms, and one Troth. 

* That the Moon does create Tides in the Atmosphere, 
as well as in the Sea, is the opinion of several eminent mo- 
dern Philosophers. 

Otia si tofias, periere Cupidinis Arcns; 

.ContempLTcme jacent et sine luce Faces. O V. 



{Mids. Night's APHORISMS. 271 

X)reamJ\ 

2381. love — innocent. 

Of Innocence, 
Love takes the meaning in Love's Conference. 

2382. reason. 

© Then of Perfection is the Point attained, 
When Reason is sole Master of our Will. 

2383. love — REASON. 

2. Reason and Love oft keep not company : 

It is most happy when they are made Friends*. 

2384. f e a R — distracts. 

3. Fear destroys the Sense. 

2385. betrays to pillage. 

From Yielders all things catch. 

2386. perjury. 

§ For one Man holding Truth, 

What numbers fail, confoundingOath with Oath! 

2387. love. 

X$ Love sincere 
Is pale with sighs that cost the fresh blood dear. 

2388. affection — it's Activity. 

© Affection's faithful Diligence will go 
Swift as an Arrow from the Tartar's Bowf. 
2389- tears — not easily counterfeited. 

2. Scorn and Derision ill can ape true Tears. 
2390. evidence — internal. 

3. How can those things to Treason seem Deceit, 
Whichbearthe badge of Faith* to prove them true. 

259 1 . wo m a.3 -Injury and Insult to her ; unmanly. 

4. §' A trim Exploit, or manly EnterprizeJ, 

* Faith is here used as T\l<r\ig & Fides for the Evidence 
which induces rational Conviction. 

f Aut ut nervo pulsante sagittae 

Pr'ma leaves ineunt si quando proelia Parthi. VIRG. 
i F.oregiam sane luidem et spolia airspla refertis 

Magnum Sc memorabilc nomen. VIRG. 



272 SHAKESPEARIAN [Mfc-NigM 

Dream .] 

To conjure tears up in a poor Maid's Eyes 
By base Derision : none of noble sort 
Would so offend. 

2392. LOVE. 

5. Ill can he stay whom Love doth press to go*. 

2393. HATRED. 

Love thinks not any harm equal to hate. 

2394. love — m isp laced. 

© Loathsome is Love misplac'd, it's Error found. 

2395. JUDGEMENT, 

Judge when you hear. 

2396\ perspective— Serial. 
4[§ Mountains far off are turned into Clouds, 
And small become and undistinguishable. 

2397. danger — Ira agin a ry . 

When in the Night imaginiug some fear, 
How easily is a Bush supposed a Bear. 

2398. time — To whom heavy. 

5f Grandeur still questions-' How shall we beguile 
* The lazy Time, if not wiih some Delight?' 
2399- intention — Good; how far it goes 
with benevolence. 

Never any thing can be amiss 
When Simpleness and Duty tender it. 

2400. benevolence. 

The amiable and good 
Suffer, when they see Wretchedness o'ercharg'd, 
And Duty in his service perishing. 

240 1 . s 1 L E N c e — Modest ; how eloquent. 
©§ In the pure Modesty of simple Duty, 
More may be read than from the rattling tongue 
Of saucy and audacious Eloquence. 

f Thus far Love and the Devil have some resemblance, 



[Merchant of APHORISMS, 2~3 

Venice .] 

Love therefore and tongue-tied Simplicity 
In least speak most. 

2402. SPEAKING. 

It is not enough to speak ; but to speak true*, 

2403. TRUTH 

§ Truth makes all things plain. 



THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. 

2404. trade and commerce. 

K§ That Merchant .is discreet 
Whose Ventures are not in one bottom trusted, 
Nor to one place ; nor pledg'd his whole Estate 
Upon the fortune of the current year. 

2405. CARE WORLD. 

They lose the World who buy it with much Care. 

' 2406. WORLD — A STAGE. 

'Tis fit we hold the World but as the World, 
A Stage where every one must play his partf. 

2407. MELANCHOLY. 

Why should a Man whose blood is warm within 
Sit like his Grandsire cut in alabaster ; [him, 

Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice 
By being peevish. 

2408. gravity— affected. 

§ There are those 
Who therefore only are reputed wise 
For saying nothing. 
2409. 

Fish not with this melancholy bait 
For this fool-gudgeon ; this opinion. 



* ' True means well and j ustly. 
f Thus Epictetus. 



274 SHAKESPERIAN ^Merchant »/ 

Venice.} 

2410. loquacity — silly and affected. 

K§ Many Men speak an infinite deal of nothing. 
The Reasons of such are as two grains of wheat 
hid in two bushels of chaff. You shall seek all 
day ere you find them ; and when you have them 
they are not worth the search. 

2411. EXPENCE^^J/z&creef. 

2. Many have much disabled their Estate 

By rashly shewing a more swelling port* 

Than their faint means would grant continuance. 

2412. friendship, 

© The purse, the person, and the utmost means 
Of a true Friend— but such are rare indeed — 
Lie open to the occasions of a Friend 
In all that stands within the eye of Honor. 

2413. virtue — her supreme beauty. 

2. Fairest of all things fair on Earth is Virtuef. 

2414. w e a lt h ; immoderate-— how poor. 
They are as sick that surfeit with too much 
As they that starve with nothing. 

2415. mediocrity — it's happiness. 

It is no mean happiness to be stated in the mean J:. 
24 1 6. maxims -"their Value in their Application. 
X Good Sentences well pronounced would be 
better if well followed. 

24 17. teachin g — easier than practice. 
It is a good Divine that follows his own Instruc- 
tions. 

* Deportment. 

f Thus Plato, Cicero, AKenside. 
I Auream quisquis Mediocritatem 
Diligit recte caret obsoleti 
Sordibus Tecti, caret invidenda 
Sobrius aula. Hor. 



IMertkMff APHORISMS. 27d 

Venice.] 

2418. 

It is easier to teach twenty what is good to be 
done, than to be one of the twenty to follow one's 
own teaching*. 

2419. youth — rash. 

Youthful Rashness skips like a Hare over the 
meshes of good Council. 

2420. INSPIRATION. 

J Holy Men at their Death and in thejr Lives 
have good Inspirations f. 

2421. MOROSENESS. 

He who in his Youth smiles not at innocent 
Mirth, gives bat a bad Promise of his Ac;e. 

2422. mockery ; criminal and silly. 

% It is a Sin to be a Mocker ; and it is not less 
a Folly. 

2423. drunkenness. 

® Better any thing than be married to a Spunge, 

2424. lending and boh fio wing. 
X§ Beware, in lending or in borrowing, 
Of taking or of giving to excess. 

2425. THRIFT INDUSTRY and HONESTY. 

Thrift is a Blessing if Men steal it not. 

2426. FRIENDSHIP. 

J^ When did Friendship take 
A Breed I for barren Metal of his Friend ? 

* If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them, 

CHRIST, 
f Nemo vir magnus sine affiatu aliquo divino fuit. 

CIC. PLAT. 

4- 1 OKOg i§ exactly this. It is true of exorbitant 
Advantage : not of common Interest. It may be very friendly 
to lend money at common Interest, when perhaps a Stranger 
would not take the security : or be it ever so good, would 
prefer employing his money to more profit. The Aristotelian 
Conceit of the Barrenness of Money has been long out of Date, 



276 SHAKESPEMAN [Merchant cf 

Venice.] 

2427- HYPOCRISY. 

Fair Terms are dangerous with a Villain's Mind* 

2428. COMPLEXION. 

Mislike not Men for their Complexion. 

2429- marriag e — c h oi c e in it. 
% Avoid in Marriage being solely led 
By the unsafe direction of the Eye. 

2430. TRUTH. 
Truth will come to light. 

2431. MURTHER. 

Murther can not be hid long. 

2432. CHILDREN. 

© Nor Vice nor Virtue are inherited :' 
And many who are Children of the Blood 
Are not so of the Manners. 

2433. taste and fancy. 

Matters of Taste and Fancy not well order Vj 
Were better far not to be undertaken. 

2434. security. 

"Fast bind ; fast find :" 
A Proverb never stale in thrnfy Mind=> 

2435. lovers. 

Lovers ever run before the Clock. 

2436. novelty. 

Who riseth from a Feast 
With that keen Appetite that he sits down r 
Where is the Horse that doth untread again 
His tedious measure with the unbated fire 
That he did pace them first? —All things that are 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd*. 



* This is true of every thing but the Pursuit of V'frivc 
and Wisdom, 



\Mcrchantof APHORISMS. 277 

Venice."] 
2437* CHANGE. 

How like a Youngster, or a Prodigal, 

The skarfed* Bark puts from her native Bay, 

Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet Wind ! 

How like a Prodigal doth she return, 

With over-weather'd ribs, and ragged sails, 

Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet Wind ! 

2438. love. 

Love is blind : and Lovers can not see 
The pretty Follies that theirselves commit. 

2439. excellence— ^ewa/e. 

X Wise K fair, and true, contains all Properties, 
To be enthroned in a constant Soul. 

2440. d a x g e r— should be incurred on adequate 

motives. 

Men that hazard all, 
Do it in hope of fair Advantages. 

2441. mind — as that, so it's trea-sure^ 
A golden Mind stoops not to shows of Dross. 

2442 . d i f f idenc e — should not be excessive. 

f* Men should not so far fear their own deserving, 
As to a weak disabling of themselves. 

2443. appearances— -false. 
All that glistens is not Gold : 
Gilded Tombs do Worms enfold. 

2444. BUSINESS. 
Slubber not Business. 

2445. AMUSEMENT. 

'Tis fit embraced Heaviness be lightened 
With some Delight or other. 

2446. o p I n l on — popular. 

f What many Men desire is often worthless: 
Lor the weak Multitude chooses by shew, 
* Ornamented with skarfs and colours, 
£ b 



^79 SHAKESPERIAN {Merchant of 

f r enics.'] 

Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, 
Nor prying to the interior :— for Opinion 
And popular Apprehension, like the Martlet, 
Builds in the Weather, on the outward Wall> 
Even in the force and road of Casualty, 

2447. 

© *Twere fit that none 
Were honourable without the stamp of Merits 
And happy for Mankind did none presume 
To wear an undeserved Dignity. 

2 4 4 S . judge men t— dispassionate > 
To offend and judge are distinct offices* 
And of opposed Natures. 

2449. prejudices— JVfltf/oft a/; an insuWkto 

our common nature. 
§ Hath not a Jew eyes ? Hath not a Jew hands ? 
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions* 
led with the same food • beat with the same 
weapons ; subject to the same diseases ; heal'd 
by the same means ; warm'd and cool'd by the 
same winter and summer as a Christian is. If 
you tickle him, does he not laugh ? If you prick 
him, does he not bleed ; if you poison him, does 
he not die ? And if you wrong him, do you won- 
der if he revenges ? 

2450. law— chargeable. 

The Thief gone with so much; and so much to 
find the Thief. 

2451. IMPATIENCE. 

X§ Impatience under Afflictions behaves as if 
there were no Sighs but of it's own breathing; no 
Tears but of it's shedding; no Calamity but what 
lights on it's shoulders. 

2452. HATE LOVE. 

Hate counsels not in quality of Love. 



[Merchant of APHORISMS. S*g 

Vtnicei\ 

2453. modesty — maiden* 

A Maiden has no tongue but thought. 

2454. PERJURY. 

© Virtue for no Reward will ever yield 
To be forsworn. 

2455. MISTRUST. 

2. f. Mistrust is Treason 'gainst the state of Love^ 
Against his Peace, his Grown, and Dignity. 

2456. TORTURE. 

§ Upon the Rack * 
Enforced Men have spoken any thing. 

2457- fancy. 
Soft Fancy is engendered in the eyes ; 
And often in the ear. 

2458. vice — imitat es virtue. 

There scarce is Vice so simple but assumes 
Some shew oi Virtue in it's outward parts f. 

2459. sympathy -^—assimilates. 

% In Companions 
That do converse and waste the Time together, 
Grows, by degrees, a like proportion \ 
Of Lineaments, of Manners, and of Spirit. 

2460. punning and quibbling. 

§ How every Fool can play upon a Word ! 

2461. WIT. 

® Those who have least Wit to shew, are 
impatient to shew their whole Wealth of Wit in 
an instant. 

* And yet we owe so late as near the End of the 18th 
Century, the final Abolition of Torture, to Montei quijsu, 
Beccaria, and Louis XVI. 

•f Faliet enim Vitium specie Virtutis & Umbra. HOR. 

J Quadris. 

Bb2 



2S0 SHAKESPERIAN [Merchant of 

Venice.] 

2402. misconstructi on — affected. 

There is neither Wit nor Good Manners in 
seeming not to understand a plain Man in his 
plain Meaning. 

2463. WORDS. 

X § There are those who foolishly for the Word 
defy the Matter. 

2464. FORTITUDE. 

2. The Dignity of Fortitude opposes 

Firm Patience to Wild Fury : and is arm'd 

To suffer with a quietness of Spirit 

The worst extreme of Tyranny and Rage. 

2465. affection. 

Affection, 
Mistress of Passion, sways it to the Mood 
Of what it likes or loaths. 

2466. h ate— accumulated resentment, 
Every Offence is not a Hate at first. 

2467. mercy. 

§ How should Men hope for Mercy, shewing none? 

2468. JUSTICE — BENEVOLENCE. 

O To the Question — What Judgement shall 
they dread who do no Wrong? the Answer is, 
Much ; if they do no Good, and have no Benevo- 
lence. 

2469. 

We do pray for Mercy, 
And that same Prayer doth teach us all to render 
The Deeds of Mercy. 

2470. caducity. 
The weakest kind of Fruit 
Drops soonest to the Ground. 

2471. power judicial— must bejixt* 
§ No Power Judicial, in a settled State, 
Can alter a Decree established : 



[As You APHORISMS. SSI 

Like //.] 

'Twould be recorded for a Precedent, 
And many an Error by the same Example 
Would rush into the State. It can not be, 

2472. cruelty — in robbing the Poor. 
§ They take the House that take away the prop 
That doth sustain the House : — they take the Life 
That take away the means by which we live. 

2473c music 

Therefore the Poet [Floods ? 

Did feign that Orpheus drew Trees, Stones, and 
Since nought so stockist), hard, and full of Rage, 
But Musictor the Time doth change his Nature *. 

2474. virtue more conspicuous by contrast. 
§ Far shines a good Deed in a wicked World. 

2475. splendor — comparative. 
The greater Glory ever dims the less, 

2476. 
5F Glory and Power compar'd with the Supreme 
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook 
Into the Main of Waters. 

2477* season. 
How many things by Season seasoned are 
To their right Praise and true Perfection. 

2478. lie. 
X Add not a Lie to a Fault. 

JS YOU LIKE IT. 
9.^79* education. 
© A bad Education undermines Gentility. 

* Such, certainly, is the General Character of Music.-?? 

The Character of those who have no taste for it, or dislike 

it, must be taken, as Dr. Burney very candidly observes 9 

with Allowances and Exceptions. So as not to insist oii 

. jAph. 1723 as an universal Truth. 

B b 3 



282 SHAKESPERIAN [As You 

Like IL] 
2480.*SLAVERY. 

The Spirit of a Man mutinies against Servitude. 

2481. DEFAMATION. 

Fools may not speak wisely what wise Men do 
foolishly. 

24 82. diversion — pugilistic. 

It is News to hear that breaking of Ribs is Sport. 

2483. exile. 

2. Where'er the Heart is Mistress of Content, 
It goes to Liberty, not Banishment. 

2484. sufferings — Physical; their Moral Use. 

3. The Winds and Storms and Snows are Coun- 
That feelingly persuade Man what he is. [cellors 

2485. WEALTH. 

Worldlings give more to those who have too much, 

2486. misery — Deserted. 

§ Misery doth part 
The flow of Company. 

2487. ENVY. 

To some kind of Men 
Their Graces serve them but as Enemies. 

2488. 
O what a World is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it ! 

24S9- temperance — healthy old age. 
4§ Those in their Youth who have forborne to 
Hot and rebellious liquors to their blood, [apply 
Or with an unabashed front to woo, 
The means of languor and debility, 
The Age of these is a lusty Winter ; 
Frosty, yet kindly. 

24^0. INTERESTEDNESS. 

According to the Fashion of ill Times 
Few toil for Virtue : for Promotion many ; 



{As Ton APHORISMS. 283 

Like IL] 

And having that they choak their service up 
Even wilh the having. 

24-91. EXPECTATIONS. 

At seventeen years many their fortunes seek ; 
But at fourscore it is too late a week*. 

2102. TRAVELLING. 

Travellers must be content. 

2493. 
G Many travel who were in a better place at 

2494." death. [home. 

All is mortal in Nature. 

2495. charity. 
2. Rich Men there are of churlish Disposition 
Who little reck to find the way to Heaven 
By deeds of hospitable Charity. 

2496'. SILENCE—LOQUACITY. 

There are silent persons who think of as many 
matters, and to as much purpose, as the very 
talkative: but they give Heaven thanks, and 
make no boast of them. 

2497. DEATH. 

§ The Imagination is often nearer Death than 
the Powers. 

2498. LIFE. 

§ From hour to hour we mortals ripe and ripe ; 
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot. 

2499- sla -n per— is disarmed by slighting it. 
He whom a Fool doth very wisely hit 
Doth very foolishly, although he smart, 
Not to seem senseless of the stroke : — if not, 
The wise Man's Folly is anatomiz'd 
E'en by the squandering glances of the Fool. 

* It were to be wished that the Author of the Night- 
Thoughts had been practically of that opinion. 



i234 SHAKESPERIAN [As m 

Like It.] 

2500. PRIDE. 

Who cries out on Pride 
That doth therein tax any private Party. 

2501. gentleness — persuasive. 

X § Gentleness will force 
More than Force moves the Mind to Gentleness. 

2502. age advancing. 

2 J Manhood, when verging into Age, grows 

thoughtful, 
Full of wise saws, and moral instances. 

2503. manners — natural; artificial. 
Those that are good Manners at Court are as 

ridiculous in the Country as the Behaviour of the 
Country seems mockable at Court. 

2504. labourer. 

3J. A true Labourer earns that he eats, gets 
that he wears; owes no man hate ; envies no man's 
happiness; — glad of other men's Good; content 
under his own privations *. And his chief Pride 
is in the modest Comforts of his Condition. 

2505. facility — deceitful. 

3J Do not let an insignificant Facility infect 
you with the false Gallop of Verses. 

250o\ decay — premature. 
4§ Beware of being rotten ere half ripe. 

2507. friendship and love ; st opt by nothing 
but impossibility. 

If it be possible, Friends and Lovers will meet 
at last : how many Mountains so ever in the way. 

* Ei ejrB»o$Q%rjo-6. %*7* *■• PAUL, 

Such is the Hospitality which the Poet means here. 
f Quos rami fructus, quos ipsa volentia rura 
Spoute tulere sua carpsit — nee ille 
Aut doluit misersns s'inopem aut invidit habenti. 

YIRG: 



\As You APHORISMS. 2S5 

Like It.] 

2508. lover endless in questions. 

It is as easy to count Atoms as to resolve the 
Propositions of a Lover. 

2509. COMPLIMENT VISITORS. 

Persons for Ceremony and Fashion's sake often 
thank others' for their Company when they had 
rather be alone. 

2510. love. Those who rail at a man for 

being in love find fault with that which very often 
would be ill changed with their best Virtues. 

.2511. tim e — measured by ideas. 

Time travels in different paces with different 
persons. And with the same persons on different 
occasions. He ambles with some; trots with 
others; gallops with others. And with, others 
he stands still, 

2512. physic. 

© Those who are in health need not Physic*. 

2513. love — -self. 

2. Those who have a great stock of S-elf-Love,' 
have rarely much Love for any other. 

2514. woman. 

3. Women are. apter to believe that they are 
loved than to confess they believe it. 

2515. COQUETRY. 

§ For every Passion something ; and for no 
Passion truly any thing : now liking; then loath- 
ing : then entertaining ; then forswearing. 

2516. INVENTION. 

The truest Poetry f has the most feigning J. 

* Scriptural Allusion. 

\ Ixr^sv Ytvosoc 7roKKccXsfeiy } Brv^oicny 

'O^OIU. HES. 

t This was Waller's courtly Apology to Charles II. for having 
.puused Cromwell, 



286 SHAKESPERIAN [A* n, 

Lih It.} 

2517. poetry and love. 
Lovers are given to Poetry. 

2518. marriag e — ill assorted. 
Marriages ill joined are like Pannels of green 

Timber : — warp, warp. 

2519. oaths — in love, suspicious. 

The oath of a Lover is no stronger than the 
word of a Tapster; they are both Confirmers of 
false Reckonings. 

2520. APPEARANCES. 

All seems brave for the moment, when Youth 
mounts and Folly guides. 

2521. I^OVE — SYMPATHY. 

The sight of Lovers feedeth those in Love. 

2522. habit — hardens. 

The accustomed sight of Death makes the 
Heart hard *. 

2523. love — not safely laugkt at. 

© Those who laugh at Love 
If ever — as that ever may be near — [Fancy, 
They meet in some fresh cheek the power of 
Then shall they know the Wounds invisible 
That Love's keen arrows make. 

2524. INHUMANITY. 

2t They seem not as if born of human Parents 
Who wantonly insult over the wretched. 

* Too often. And this is one among many objections to the 
frequency of Public Executions. Yet in the well principled ? 
the frequent sight of suffering, as is excellently observed by 
the Rev. Robert Fellowes, though it diminishes painful 
and overpowering Sensibility, by no means weakens active * 
Benevolence. There are too many instances of sensibility, 
real or affected, so far indulged, as to stand in the way of 
stlmost every good and necessary exertion. 



[As Ton APHORISMS. 287 

Like It.] 

2525. nock T.TLY—it'& Deformity, 

Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer. 

2526. love — at first sight. 

Who ever lov'd that lov ; d not at first sight*. 

252/. partiality— blind. 

§ Any words do well, [hear. 

If those who speak them please but those who 

252 S . forbearaxc i,-?iot ahcays safely trusted. 
t Omittance is no Quittance, 
Either of Debt or any Injury. 

2 5 2 9 . writing- in •what instan ces ready. 
© Writing is very prompt 

With matter in the Head and in the Heart J. 

2530. RESENTMENT. 

2. When Resentment says, " I will be very 
short," it often happens that it never knows how 
to end. 

2531. M E L A N C H O L Y , Of L A U G H T E R-eJlTf SSVCC. 

To be in the extremity of either Melancholy or 
Laughter is unwise. 

2532. melancholy — its difference in differ en t 

Persons and professions. 

t The Scholar's Melancholy is Emulation ; the 

Musician's and Poet's fantastical : the Courtier's 

proud ; the Soldier's ambitious ; the Lawyer's 

politic; the Lady's nice ; the Lover's, all these. 

2533. melancholy — philosophic and poetic. 
© Solitary Contemplation draws a benevolent 

and rehVd Melancholy from a great diversity 

* This is inserted only as dramatically true ; by being in 
character of the Speaker; a passionate and vain Woman. It 
is far from generally true : and is often a dangerous delusion* 
| Verbaque provisam rem 

Non invita sequentur. HOR. 



2S8 SHAKESPEARIAN [^ rb 

Like It.J 

of objects*, extracted by Reason, sublim'd by 
Imagination, soften' d by the Heart. 

2534. EXPERIENCE. 

2. Many gain Experience at a price that 'makes 
them sad. 

2535. xEnsE—should keep toils mm Depart* 

merit. 
They have need* of a good Wish who talk or 
write Prose in Blank Verse f. 

2536. love — nothing observes time like it. 

§ He that will divide a Minute into a thousand 
parts, and break but a part of the thousandth 
part of a Minute in the Affairs of Love ; Cupid 
may have clapt him on the shoulder, but, how- 
ever, he is Heart whole. 

2537'. eloquen c e — Helps to it. 

§' Very good Orators when they are out will 
•hem and cough. 

2538. thoughts siviftl. 
Thoughts are wing'd, 

2539/ possession — Before and after. 

§ Love before possession is forever and a day ;: 
but after, it : rs too often the day without the ever. 

254-0. ii us b ax d and wi v es. 

t Men are April when they woo ; but December 
after they are' wed. 

254 1." 

Maids are May while they are Maids ; but the 
Sky changes when they are Wives. 

* Vide the Ii, Penseroso. 

f Of the difficulty and desirableness of this see BAYLE 
Pref. au Diet. Hist. Crit. & Philos. 



[AsTou APHORISMS, 289 

Like It.] W 

2542. WOMEN. 

© t In Women, and in Men too, " The Wiser 
the more Wayward" is not always true ; but it is 
too often : If by Wisdom no more is meant than 
strength and quickness of Mind, without includ- 
ing it's influence on the Manners & the Conduct, 

2.543, woman's wit. 

Make the Doors fast upon a Woman's Wit, 
and it will out at the Casement; shut that, and 
it will out at the Key hole; stop that, 'twill fly 
with the smoke out at the Chimney. You shall 
never take her without her Answer, unless you 
take her without her Tongue. 

2544. time. 

Time is the old Justice that examines all OfTen- 

2545. [ders, 
Let Time try. 

2545. repentance— inge?iuoi(s and humble, 
X A true repentant Spirit will not shun 
To own it's Errors past, since it's Conversion 
So sweetly tastes in being what it is. 

2547. folly opinionated ; wisdom humble. 
The Fool doth think himself wise ; but the Wise 
Man knows himself to be a Fool*. 

254S. love — it's composition analyz'd. 
Love 
Is made of Sighs and Tears, of Faith aid Service, 
Of Passion, Wishes, Fear, and Fantasy; 
All Humbleness, all Patience and Impatience; 
All Purity, all Trial, ail Observance/ 

* SOCRATES ?aid that ail his Knowledge was 'o know 
that he knew nothing. 



290 SHAKESPERIAN [^ «• 

254-9. SPRING. 
Lovers love the Spring*. 

2550. LOVE YOUTH. 

Love is crown'd with Prime. 

2551. hope chequer d with, fear. 
Kf Iu whatsoever greatly is desir'J, 

We sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not r 
As those that fear their Hopef, and know their 

2552. honesty. [Fear. 
Rich Honesty dwells often in a poor House, 

as a Pearl in an Oyster. 

2553. talent misapplied. 

Some are good at any thing, and yet Fools J. 

2554. RAILLERY sty. 

Some use the appearance of Folly like a 
Stalking-horse, and under the presentation of 
that shoot their Wit. 

2555. peace. 

O There is joy in Heaven when Earth is at Peace. 

2556. attachment — if* Influence. 

2. Modest and persevering Attachment some- 
times creates Love. 

2557. recommendation. 
Good Wine needs no Bush. 

* And Poets and Painters. 
f Paventosa Speme. 

J Mktoo lLo(bi<f\v\v *6<f\tg 8% ccvjoo <rc(pog 
JloKK 7j7Ti(rj(zjo epyot. xocxocg^ q7rKrjccJ® 
TTufjoc. HOM. in Margitem. 



ITheTamhtz APHORISMS. 291 

of a Shre'zvA 

THE TAMING OF A SHREW. 

255$. music. 

Music makes 
Dulcet and heavenly Sound. 

2559. MELANCHOLY. 

Melancholy is the Nurse of Frenzy. 

2560. MIRTH. 

Mirth bars a thousand harms, and lengthens Life, 

2561. ETHICS. 

§ No Study of such value is to Man 
As that part of Philosophy which treats 
Of Virtue, and of that true Happiness 
By Virtue specially to be achiev'd. 

2562. PHILOSOPHY. 

Xt Happy when Youth continues it's resolve 
To woo the sweets of pure Philosophy. 

2563. music and poetry. 
Music and Poesy use to quicken you. 

2564. MATHEMATICS and METAPHYSICS 

The Mathematics and the Metaphysics, 

Fall to them as you find your Stomach serves. 

2565. %TVDY—forcd. 

No Profit grows where is no Pleasure taken. 

2566. ARTS INCLINATION. 

I In Arts, that study which you most affect. 

2567. silence. 

In Silence we may see 
Maids' mild Behaviour and Sobriety*. 

2568. knowledge and ACCOM plish m ents 

—their moral Use. [Temper 

2, Happy and wise are those who, when their 

* Twoci^i Kocpov v\ Xtyu (pegzt. 
c c2 



292 SHAKESPERIAN [The Taming 

of a Shrew,] 

Is urg'd by Provocation and sharp Trials, 
In Books and Instruments Companions find 
In which to look and practise by themselves. 

2569- education — Female. 
2J. In Female Education 'tis most fit 
Instruction in the tender Spring of Youth 
Be given in Music, Languages, whate'er 
Is worthy to be learnt. 

2570* EDUCATION. 

3J. To Preceptors 
Respect is due:-— and Liberality 
To our own Children in good bringing up* 

2571. CORRUPTION. 

There's small Choice in rotten Apples, 

2572. ALERTNESS. 

He that runs fastest geti the Ring. 

2573. PRUDENCE. 

With caution judge of Possibility. 
Things thought unlikely, e'en impossible. 
Experience often shews us to be true*. 

$574}. LOVE, 

Affection is not rated from the Heart, 

2575. CONVERSATION. 

Use your Manners discreetly in all kind of Conv 

2576. MARRIAGE. [P anv * 

2. If you wish for good days and long, mind 
whom you marry. 

2577. INGRATITUDE. 

Be not so graceless as to be ingrate. 

* Le vrai n'est pas toujours vrai-semblable. 

ARISTOTLE & BQILEAIL 



[The Taming APHORISMS. 293 

of a Shrew. ] 

2578. law. 

Adversaries in Law 
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as Friends *. 

2579. injury — unprovok'd. 

Wrong is twice Wrong 'gainst those who never 
wrong'd us. 

2580. EXCESS. 

Though little Fire grows great with little Wind, 
Yet extreme Gusts will blow out Fire and all. 

2581. YOUTH. 

? Tis Youth in Ladies' eyes that flourisheth, 

2582. success. 
Deeds must win the Prize. 

2583. DEATH. 

Young Men die, as well as old. 

2584. music. 

© Music was given to soothe the Mind of Man 
After his Studies, and relieve his Cares. 

2585. NOVELTY. 

It is fantastical and frivolous 
To change true Ftules for odd Inventions. 

2586. marriage fore'd, 

2f. 'Tis wretched, and as shameful, to be fore'd 
To give the hand oppos'd against the Heart. 

2587. winter. 

Winter tames Man, Woman, and Beast. 

3588. DUTY. 
Do thy Duty and have thy Duty. 

2589- patience. 
3. Patience is doubly due for Faults unwilling. 

* See that exquisite Burlesque Poem c The Pleader's 
Guid e.' At the same time there is no reason why professional 
Contest should imply personal Enmity. 
C C 3 



29* SHAKESPERIAN [The Taming 

of a Shrew.] 

2590. PASSiosr — violent — will have way. 

X The Tongue will tell the anguish of the Heart: 
Or else the Heart, concealing it, will break. 

2591. simplicity and conciseness. 

© Simplicity and Conciseness please the Wise. 

2592. SECRETS. 
Pitchers have Ears. 

2593. love. 
Love works Miracles. 

25Q4*. PEACE. 

Happy it is when raging War is done, 
To smile at 'scapes and perils overblown. 

2595. CONVIVIALITY. 

True Banquet is to chat as well as eat f, 

2596- pea c e— Lore of it essential to the feminine 
Character. 
® It ill becomes the gentleness of Woman 
To offer War where she should seek x for Peace. 

2f>97. 
>{ § As Women's Bodies are soft, weak, & smooth, 
Unapt to toil and trouble in the World, 
? Tis fit their soft condition and their Hearts 
With their external frame should well agree. 
259S. 

§ 'Tis a harsh hearing when Women are froward* 

25.99* children. 
'Tis a good hearing when Children are toward. 

2600. GOODNESS. 

He that is generally good, must of necessity 
hold that virtue in particular : and especially to- 
ward t]iQ Good, 

* This the Con<vi<vlu?g of the Romans denoted : their Lan« 
g&age was happier ia this Term than the Greek* 



[Air s mil tha APHORISMS. 293 

£nds Well} 

ALUS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. 

2601. GRIEF —AFFECTATION. 

© Great external shew of excessive Grief is 
suspected of Affectation : and generally, but not 
always, justly, 

2602. CHILDREN, 

Children are bound by Virtue to maintain 
The Credit of good Parents. 

2603. humility — affected. 

Many wear the surplice of Humility over tlis 
black gown of a big Heart. 

2604. MARRIAGE. 

X In Marriage it is just that we should use 
The help of our own eyes. 

2605. VIRTUE. 

For Honour and Wealth we may look to Kings : 
For Virtue, to ourselves. 

2606. tongue — Danger of the Abase of it. 
Many % Man's Tongue shakes out his Master's 

undoing. 

2607. PATIENCE. 

In greatest Trials 
Think upon Patience. 

2608. company — Bad; corruptive. 
© A well-derived Nature grows corrupt 
By bad Companions. 

2600. mildness. 
>£ f When such Indulgence is unmerited, 
The sharpest stings are in the mildest words 

2610. age. 
2, Age is weak. 



296 SHAKESPERIAN {Aw* miithat 

£nds Weill 

2611. service, public — often defrauded of 

its Praise. 
The Merit of Service is often not attributed to 
the true and exact Performer. 

2612. desire— stops at nothing. 

3. % To please the Will, when once it is enflam'd 
By a licentious Fire, nothing seems dear, 
However repented after. 

2613. knowledge — pretended. 

In those who mean not to inform, or to be 
informed, but to make Parade, to seem to know 
is often knowing enough for their purpose. 

2()1<£. despair — never to be indulged. 
All may end well yet, 
Though Time seem most adverse, and means unfit, 

26l5. METAPHORS. 

2. Metaphors should be clean and inoffensive. 
26ifJ. youth — passionate. 

In the flower of Youth, 
The oil and fire, too strong for Reason's force, 
O erheads it and burns on. 

2617. fear and suspicion. 

3. Credulity and Carelessness, and rash Confi- 
dence, having feared too little, when by a rea- 
sonable apprehension 111 might have been pre- 
vented, are apt to fear too much, when Fear 
serves only for needless Anxiety ; and to become 
tormentingly and unavailingly suspicious for 
want of having been timely prudent. 

2618. lo ve— nurst by solitude and indul- 

gence. 
§ Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied in bowers. 



[Twelfth APHORISMS. 2£7 

Night.'] 

TWELFTH NIGHT. 

2619. courage and hope. 
Courage and Hope are provident in Peril, 
And vanquish greatest Dangers. 

2620. RUMOR. 

The less will prattle of what Great ones do, 

26'2i. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

Tis lovely to observe, when the Mind suits 
Well with the fair external Character. 

2622. order. [Order. 
K Confine yourself within the modest limits of 

2623. THOUGHT. 

Thought is free. 

2624. GOOD EATING. 

To be a great Eater of Beef harms the Wit *. 

2625. MARRIAGE. 

2. It is dangerous for a Man to match above 
his degree in Estate, Years, or Wit. 

2626. EXERTION. 

Is it a World to hide Virtues in ? f 

2627. marriage — any thing better than an 

unhappy. 
§ It's a good hanging that prevents a bad Marriage. 

2628. WIT. 

Those who think that they have Wit, very often 
prove Fools. 

2629. CONDUCT — INEQUALITY of 

f Virtue that transgresses is patent with Sin : 

* It requires some Resolution to publish this Aphorism m 
England ; especially for a man who loves Beef. 
I Paulum sepufe distat, Inertia 

Celata' Virtus. HOR» 



258 SHAKESPERIAN [7Wy**" 

Night.} 
And Sin that amends, till the Amendment become 
habitual, is but patent with Virtue, 

2630. BEAUTY. 
Beauty's a Flower. 

25*31. CALAMITY. 

© Calamity tempts to Infidelity. 

2632. habit— external. 
Cucullus non tacit Monachum *; 

2633. CONSOLATION. 

2. If we believe that our Friends are in Heaven* 
we. should not mourn to excessf. 

2634. SELF-LOVE. 

3. Those who are sick of Self-love taste every 
thing with a distempered Appetite. 

2635. SLANDER. 

Those who are generous, guiltless, and of a 
free Disposition, take those things for bird-bolts 
that others deem cannon-shot. 

2636. DRUNKENNESS. 

§ A drunken Man is like a Fool, a Madman, 
and a drowned Man ; one draught too much 
makes him a fool, the second mads, and the 
third drowns him. 

2637- obligation — duties of indefinite. 

% f What is our's to bestow, is not our's to 
reserve, without just cause. 

2. What is our's to bestow, is so far our's to 
reserve, that an individual can not claim it as 
a Debt. 

* The hood doth not make the Monk. 

f Sorrowing not as those without hope. PAUL* 



[Twelfth APHORISMS. 2S9 

Night.] 

2638. LOVE. 

X t Love may be as quickly caught as the Plague : 
but Love so caught is not very often mortal. 

2639. EYE. 

2. A partial Eye is a great Flatterer. 

264-0. NECESSITY. 

What is decreed must be. 

2641. SELF. 
Ourselves we do not owe*. 

2642. FRIENDSHIP. 

3. Friendship wishes, as far as may be, to bear 
it's Evils alone, and divide it's Comforts. 

2643. SECRET. 

© Modesty will not extort a Secret which an- 
other has a Right and a Wish to reserve. 

2644. MODESTY. 

2. Modesty wins Confidence. 

2645. CONSISTENCY. 

3. Do not undo what you have done : do not 
kill whom you have recover'd. 

2646. WOMAN. 

How easy is it tor the proper false 

In Women's waxen Hearts to set their forms ! 

2647. disguise. 

+ Disguise is Folly, Fear, or Wickedness; 
Scarce ever aught of Good. 

264S MAN. 

Such as we are made, e'en such we be f. 

* To owe here is to be the Owner, to have the absolute 
Dominion over, and Disposal. 

f We are made by Circumstances: And our Wisdom is to 
avoid such Circumstances as tend to make us bad; and to 
make the most of those by which we have a rational Prospect 
of being made good. 



300 SHAKESPERIAN [Twelfth 

Nighty 

2649. FAME. 

X Time unties knots, too hard else to untie 

2650. RISING EARLY. 

Diluculb surgere saluberriinum *. 

2651. S0TTI5HNESS, 

Sots are not for Good Life. 

2652. LOVERS. 

Journeys end in Lover's Meetings 

2653. DELAY. 

In Delay there lies no Plenty. 

26^54. YOtJtfH. 

Youth's a stuff will not endure. 

2655. FUTURE. 

What's to come is still unsure. 

2656. CATCHING. 

Some Dogs will catch wellf. 

2657. FOLLY. 

2. Folly has no respect of Time, Place, or Persons* 

2658. ALLIANCE. 

^ However allied to others, we should so act 
as to be held nothing allied to their Disorders. 

2659. VANITY. 

4* Those who believe that every one who looks 
on them loves them, are perpetually open to 
Ridicule and Disappointment. 

2660. MEN. 

However Men are apt to praise themselves, 
Their Fancies oft are giddy ; more infirm, 
More wandering, wavering, sooner lost and won, 
Than Women's are. 

* " To rise early is Most tuholesome" SHAKESPEARE had 
this from the Latin Accidence. And he has given it to an 
appropriate Character. 

f And to catch is often less than a doggish Merit, 



{Twelfth APHORISMS., 301 

Night.] 

2661. WOMAN. 

Women are as Roses. 

2662. CONSUMPTION. 

Alas, that female Excellence is so, 

To die, e'en when they to Perfection grow c 

2663. PLEASURE. 

Pleasure will be paid one time or other, 

2664. LOVE — it's NOBLENESS; 

© Love is more noble than the Wealth of Worlds, 

2665. WOMAN. 

2. Women are not less true of Heart than Men. 

2666. LOVE. 

3. Those much in Vows are oft little in Love. 

2667. ■ ■ Jealous and Impatient. 

4. Love can give no man place ; brook no DeniaL 

2668. FLATTERY. 

5. It is not only Trouts that are caught with tick- 

2669. fortune. [ling. 

6. Fools think that all is Fortune. 

2670. PRIDE. 

7. Self-contemplation makes a rare Turkey- 
cock* of Pride. 

267L GRANDEUR. . 

8. If those who think themselves Great had 
any eye behind them, they might see more De- 
traction at their heels than Fortune before them. 

2672. ETYMOLOGiES-o$fe» fanciful and absurd. 

9. 'Tis but crushing Words a little, and they 
will bow to any Etymology. 

26*73. GREATNESS. 

Some are born Great ; some achieve Greatness ; 
and some have Greatness thrust on them. 

* D'mdcn is the French expression for 5 vain and arrogant 
Man. D d 



302 SHAKESPERIAN [Twelfth 

Night.] 

2674. OPPORTUNITY. 

10. When our Fates seem to open their hand 
to us, let our Spirit embrace them in all that is 
wise and honourable. 

2675. singularity— -false and affected. 

11. It is bad to put ourselves in the trick of 
Singularity when it is no better than a trick. 

2676. ijviei. 

That Advice is at least sincere which comes 
from those who love us. 

2o77. desire; laudable — energy of it. 

As far as Excellence goes, they are made who 
strenuously and perseveringly desire to be so. 

2678. GROSSNESS. 

<f[ § Avoid Gross Acquaintance. 

2679. imagination. 

© Do not so fool yourself as to let Imagina- 
tion jade you. 

2. We often think we have every Reason on 
our side when we have only our Fancy. 

26SO. vanity. 

3. Nothing is so credulous as Vanity? and so 
ignorant of what becomes it, 

2681. pride— -vanity. 

4. Pride overweens on real Advantages; Va- 
nity often presumes on those which have no 
existence. 

2682. DULLNESS — FLATTERY* 

5. Dullness, like Flattery, is a mere Echo *. 

* Aphorisms maybe extracted from the Characters of 
Shakespeare where they are not expresst : as from real 
Life*— See " Locke's Essay on Human Understanding," 



[Twelfth APHORISMS. 303 

Night.} 

2653. WIT ATFECTATIOST of it. 

6. To false Wit a Sentence is but a cheveril 
Glove : So quickly may the inside be turned out ! 

2654. WORDS. 

7. In reasoning with others we must generally 
use Words. And Words have so much of Ambi- 
guity, that it is difficult to prove Reason by them, 
so as not to deceive ourselves or others *» 

2685. 
§ Those that dally with Words easily corrupt 

2686. folly. [them. 

8. Foolery walks about the Globe ; so far like 
the Sun, that it shews itself as openly. 

2687. fooler ,% affected, 

§ To play the Fool well requires a kind of Wit. 

2688. AFFECTATION in STYLE. 

9. Folly is much taken with affected Phrases. 

2689. FLATTERY. 

§ 'Tis not a merry nor a happy World 
When lowly feigning is thought Compliment* 

2690. PITY. 

§ Pity is often a degree to Love. 
2691. 

10. The wise and virtuous pity Enemies. 

2692. POOR. 

The Poor have some Excuse for being proud; 
The Prosperous have less. 

2693 . e . x E M y ; — a noble consoles. 

If one should be a Prey, how much the better 

* It is not easy to find in Shakespeare more than Shake* 
speare knew ; any more than in Homer. It is more difficult 
in both to have a tolerable approach to a Comprehension of 
fcow much they knew. 

p'd-2 



304 SHAKESPERIAN [Twelfth 

Night.} 
To fall before the Lion than the Wolf. 

2694. love — can not he conceal* d. 

A murtherous Guilt shews not itself more soon 
Than Love that would be hid. — Love's Night is 

2695. reason. [Noon, 
Reason with Reason fetter* 

2696. LOVE. 
Love sought is Good. 

2697. OPPORTUNITY. 

11. However brilliant Opportunity appears, a 
little Time washes off it's Lustre. 

2693. valour, 

§ Nothing can more prevail in commendation 
of Man with Woman, than report of Valour. 

2699. BELIEF. 

12. To beiieve rightly is to believe rationally; 
and not gross impossibilities. 

2700. IMPROBABILITY. 

>£f Many things happen in real Life that, if 
play'd on a Stage, would be condemn'd as im- 
probable Fictions, 

2701. VALOUR— Mp£k. 

Jt A terrible Oath sharply twang' d off, with a 
swaggering Action, gives pretended Manhood 
more approbation than ever proof would have 
earnt. 

2702. conscience, [Faults; 
§ There's something in us that reproves our 
Howe'er ahead-strong Fault may mock Reproof. 

2703. QUARREL-SEEKERS. 

2. There are Men who put Quarrels purposely 
pa others, to taste their Valour. 



[Twetftk APHORISMS. 305 

Nigkt.] 

2704. QUARREL-SEEKERS. 

3f. A boisterous and regardless Quarrel- maker 
Is fit for mountains, and the barbarous caves 
Where Manners ne'er were preacht. 

2705. IGNORANCE. 

§ There is no Darkness like Ignorance. 

27 06. detraction kss danger ous than flat- 
tery; censure more pleasing than 
praise. 
It is better for a Man that his Foes should tell 
him that he is an Ass, than that his Friends by 
Flattery should make an Ass of him. 
2707. 

4. If his Foes tell a Man plainly that he is an 
Ass, and his Friends praise him till they make 
an Ass of him, he is the better for his Foes and 
the worse for his Friends. For by these he profits 
in the knowledge of himself; but by those he is 
deceiv'd into ignorance of himself*. 

2708. DUPLICITY. 

He is much of a Sinner who is a double Dealer. 

2709. FITNESS. 

5§. Do what you please, so that it be becoming f. 

2710. MAN. 

ft Man, in ail Perils know thyself a Man. 

Be that thou know'st thou art: — and then thou 

As great as that thou fearest. [art 

* There is an Essay in the Characteristics of Plutarch 
how a Man may profit by his Enemies. 

t Not the Chesterfield Becomingness (though even that 
is not to be slighted); but the philosophic and moral*,— 
<c Quod verum atque decens." HOR. 

p d 3 



306 SHAKESPERIAN [Tweifik 

Night.} 

2711. NATURE. 

Nature draws to her Bias. 

2712. RETRIBUTION. 

© To wrong-doers the Revolution of Time 

brings Retribution. 

2713. dishonesty ; — no Passport. 
'Gainst Knaves & Thieves Men shut their Gates. 

2714. BiiETENCES — not long successful. 
'Tis hard by Swaggering long to thrive. 

2715. 
§ Ornament often proves too dangerous. 

2716. observation — Nicety of it ; or fact, 
§ Many things are not noted 

But of the finer Natures. 

2717. integrity—?;?/^ be fearless. 

§ Cowardice 
Drives Honesty behind ; restraining it 
From cpurse requir'd. 

2715. NEGLIGENCE. 

§ In Persons grafted in a serious Trust 
Negligence is a Crime*. 

2719. DIFFIDENCE. 

K Distrust of the Event is such a Fear 
As oft infects the wisest. 

2720. INFIRMITY. 

1ft Infirmities there are from which our Nature 
Is never freef. 

2721. GUILT. 

The Guilty 
^Vould wish all eyes blind but their own. 

* This was rightly urged on a late Public Enquiry. 

f And this ; as an occasion of Sympathy : 
Vitus nemo sine nascitur : optimus ille 
Qui minimis urgetur* JUV* 



iT-zvdfth APHORISMS. 307 

Night.] 

2/22. opinion — inveterate. 

® The Choice is oft an early Cure or none 

Of a diseas'd Opinion : — that neglected, 

Passion and Prejudice are rooted in us. 

2723. servants —faithful. 

K Good Servants see the Honour of their Master 
With eyes as keen as their particular Profit. 

2724. DANGER— PREVENTION. 

? Tis wiser to prevent an urgent Danger 
Than to lose time in questioning how it grew. 

2725. kings should be attentive to satisfy the 

PUBLIC, 

© In Princes, howe'er satisfied, 'tis wise 
To make that full Disclosure which shall give 
Rest to the Minds of others. 

2726. 1 N n o c en c e — to be defended at all Risques. 
X Fear not from tyrannous Passion to defend 
An innocent Life. 

2727. INTOLERANCE, 

© «[ Those are more Heretics who make the Fire 
Than they who burn in it*. 

2728. ADULATION. 

Xt Indulgence to the Follies of the Great 

Will never do them good : — much less, to Crimes. 

2729. TRIAL. 

2f. Who have been publicly accused should have 
A just and open Trial. 

2730. ce remo n y —religious. * 

3. The Ceremonies of Religion should 

Be solemn and unearthly f. 

* A Divine Aphorism : and especially those Ti 
dered. 

f GOD is a Spirit: and those who worship bin: ghd'old 
worship in Spirit and in-Truth. JOHN. 



308 SHAKESPERIAN \A ****** 

Tale.} 

2731. conscience — a bad. 

© To Conscience self-accus'd, Calamity 
Seems Heaven's immediate Judgement. 

2732. passion obstinate. 

The Violence of Passion will disbelieve any 
thing rather than it will believe it's own injustice. 

2733. SUPERSTITION. 

© The influence of Superstition is like that of 
Flattery : we are open to both when we imagine 
ourselves most inaccessible to either. 

2734. CHEARFULNESS Supports EXERTION, 

§ A merry Heart goes all the Day, 
A sad tires in a mile. 



A WINiEKS TALE. 
2735. fetes fashionable. 

X$ Many a Feast 
In every Mess has Folly; and the Feeders 
Digest it with a Custom. 

2756. security — Confidence of it. 
© Continued Health, Prosperity, and Greatness, 
Are little us'd to fear. 

2737. gloom — unseasonable. 

X§ Darken not with forc'd thoughts the mirtk 
pf a Feast. 

2738. love— it's Vartialify. 

§ "What the Belov'd does, in a Lover's eye 
Still betters what is done*. 

2739. CREDULITY. 

© Common Minds are apt to take every thing 
in print for true. 

f Omnis Amatori decuit Color, & Statu?, & Res. 



{A Winter'* APHORISMS. 309 

Tale.] 

2740. GIFTS. 

2. The Gifts for which Love looks are in the Heart. 

2741. ADVICE. 

3. Wait for the Season, when to cast good Coun- 
Upon subsiding Passion. [cils 

2742. business — unceremonious. 

4, Business near the Heart 
Will leave out Ceremony. 

2743. PROSPERITY— LOVE, 

+ Where not the Heart and Mind, but Fancy 
Prosperity's the very Bond of Love ; [sways, 
Whose fresh Complexion, and whose Heart toge- 
Affliction alters. £ther, 

2744. ATTENTION — PASSION. 

5. A Btrong Interest felt in any thing absorbs 
the Senses. 

2745. CELERITY. 

Where all is right, the swifter speed the better* 

2746. KNAVERY. 

6§. Those who have least Honesty are some- 
times honest ; by Accident, as it were. 

2747. AFFECTATION. 

7. To vulgar Minds it appears noble to be fan- 
tastical. 

2748. REPENTANCE — AMENDMENT. 

8. The greatest Faults 
Repentance and Amendment will redeem. 

2749. love— First. 

* K§ A first Love has 

As little skill to fear as it has purpose 
To give a cause for fear. 

2750. rogue — confirm' d. 

2. A thorough Rogue is Proof against the Title 
of Rogue, and what shame belongs to it, 



310 SHAKESPERIAN [Macbeth. 

2751. emotion — it's Language. 

3. In high Emotions Silence is Speech, and 
every Gesture is Language the most significant* 

2752. PREFERMENT. 

4. There are Heads on which Preferment would 
drop, were it not for the dash of their former 

Lives. 



MACBETH. 

2753. wickedness — reverses natural Appear- 
§ To the wicked fair is foul, and foul is fair, [ances. 

2754. WEATHER — PROGNOSTICS. 

Whence the Sun gives his Reflection 
Ship-wrecking Storms and direful Thunders break. 

2755. APPEARANCES. [come 

f Oft from that Spring whence Comfort seems to 
Discomfort wells. And Conifort oft whence 

seem'd 
Only to flow Discomfort. 

2756. honors — new 

5f. Unless the Mind itself be truly noble, 

New Honors, like strange Garments, sit not well 

But with the aid of Use. 

2757. attention — habit of it endear s. 

6§. VVhat we have begun to plant, 'tis seen we 
To make it full or Growth. [labour 

275S. nobility. 
© That Signs of Nobleness like Stars may shine, 
Those who deserve, and they alone, must wear 

2759. integrity. [them, 

71f What we will highly 
We should will holily. 



Macbeth.] APHORISMS. 311 

2760. energy prescient. 

<S Jk It is a godlike Energy which feels 
The Future in the Instant. 

2761. vice — physiognomy. [clear. 
2H. Vice, when most bold, but seems to look up 

2762. vice prepares Retribution against itself, 
Xt Treachery, Rapine, Cruelty, but teach 
Bloody Inventions, which being taught return 
To plague the Inventors. — Even-handed Justice 
Commends the Ingredients of our poison'd Chalice 
To our own Lips. 

2763. 

2. Guilt still feeds 
It's Judgement even here. 

2764. man— his true Character. 

3. Who dares do all that may become a Man, 
And dares no more, he is a Man indeed. 

2765 . guilt— it's Language perfect. 

Enormous Guilt, when new, is dark, confus'd* 
And forc'd in it's Expressions*. 
2/66. h o nor true — takes no criminal Advantages, 

>£ Take heed to lose no Honor 
In seeking to augment it : but still keep 
Thy bosom-franchise and Allegiance clear. 

2767. guilt — it's Terrors. 

© Guilt self-dismay'd sees Spectres every where, 

2768. WORDS — ACTIONS. 

Words to the heat of Deeds too cold Breath give. 

* " Our Will became the Servant of Defect," &c. Another 
thing is remarkable : that already imagining himself what 
he had resolved to be at the Price of any Sacrifice, he uses 
Vfixi'jrfural Pronoun. 



312 SHAKESPERIAN [Macbeth. 

2769. despair. [Guilt: 
Kt Despair is bold ; e'en when 'tis yok'd with 
It is the Attempt confounds, and not the Deed. 

2770. guilt cowardly and superstitious. 

2. It is the very property of Guilt, 

To relax the noble Strength of Mind, and think 
Most brain-sickly of Things, 

2771. child h 00 d — readily madefearfuL 

'Tis the eye of Childhood 
That fears a painted Devil. 

2772. fear — excessive. 

3. How is't with Man when every Noise appals 

2773. guilt — her two Aspects. [him, 
© Guilt has two Aspects; of Allurement and of 

Terror : 
The first precedes ; the second follows the Crime, 

2774. EQUIVOCATION. 

t However it may deceive Man and prosper on 
Earth, there is no equivocating to Heaven. 
277$. LUXURY. 

2. Too many of all Professions go the primrose 
way to Destruction. 

2776. EBRIETAS. 

Ebrietas Appetitum accendit ; Actum frustrafur^f. 
2777- labour not felt when the Pursuit interests. 
The Labour we delight in physics Pain. 

2775. affection — active, 

X The Expedition of a violent Love 
Outruns the Pauser Reason. 

* In Pra*lia trudit inertem. HOR. 

f This Aphorism has been expresst here in Latin; foe 
8 very obvious reason. 



Macbeth.] APHORISMS. 313 



courageous. 



2, Prudence will hardly stop in any Peril 

e who have Heart to love, and in that Heart 
Courage to make Love known. 

2780. COURAGE. 

3. Tis fit in sudden Dangers 
Briefly to put on manly readiness. 

2781. AMBiTioy. 

Thriftless Ambition e'en will raven up 

It's own Lire's means. 

2782. CHARITY — U's BLESSEDNESS, 

4. The Benediction of Heaven is with those 
Who would make good of bad, and Friends of 

27S3. SOLITUDE — SOCIETY. [FO€S. 

5. Solitude makes renew* d Society 

The sweeter welcome*. 

2784. 
6i. In the just Temper of heroic Virtue 
Wisdom is Guide to Valour. 

2785. DESPAIR. 
7t. Dangerous are they who, wearied with Disas- 
Gladly would set their Lite on any chance, [ters, 
To mend, as they imagine, or be rid on't. 

527 S6. HYPOCRISY. 

S. Hv lg those whom she strike? down. 

2787. despondenc Y — solitary . 

p. Despondency would ever keep alone, 
Gf sorriest Fancies her Companions making. 

2788. evils past:~^kow to he considered, 

10f. Things without Remedy 
Should be without regard : — but to avoid [like. 
Those faults which caus'c, and may produce their 

Solitude sometimes is best Society, 
And short Retirement urges sweet Return. ' P* L, 

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314 SHAKESPERIAN [Macbeth. 

2789* guilt — it's own tormentor. 

11. The Mind of prosperous Guilt is full of 

2790. conviviality. [Scorpions. 

12. The Sauce to Meat is kind and friendly cheer: 
Meeting were bare without it. 

2791. MURTHER — DISCOVERY. 

© Discoveries most mysterious have brought 
The secretest Man of Blood. [forth 

2792. wickedness confirmed. 

2. Wickedness, when eonfirm'd, resolves to know 
By the worst means the worst ; to it's own interest 
Forcing all other causes to give way. 

2793. sleep. 

3. Sleep is the Seasoner whose balm attempers 
All mortal Natures : but to treacherous Cruelty 
Not Sleep itself is Refuge. 

2794* security — none less safe than those who 
think themselves most secure. 
§ A negligent Security 
Is mortal's chiefest Enemy. 

2795. celerity necessary to great Enterprises* 

4. A mighty purpose rarely is attain'dj 
Unless the Deed go with it. 

2896. boasting. 
No Boasting like a Fool. 

2897. fear. 

© A selfish Fear dwells not with Love or Wisdom* 
289S. — - — overpowered by affection. 
The poor Wren, 

The most diminutive of Birds, will fight, 

(Her young ones in her Nest), against the Owl* 
2899- advice — officious. [themselves, 

2, Those who school others should oft school 



Macbeth 2 APHORISMS. 315 

2900. suspicion— political. 

§ Too cruel are the Times when we are Traitors, 
And do not know ourselves, nor what we fear, 
But float upon a wild and violent sea, 
And move each way. 

2901. calamit y— Encouragement under it* 
Things at the worst will cease; or e'en climb up* 
To what they were before*. [ward 

2902. snares —for vAom chiefly. 
Q Traps are not set for poor Birds % , 

2903. good and evil — often misconceived. 
§ In a corrupted World to do much harm 

Is oft deem'd laudable; to do good, sometime, 
Accounted dangerous Folly. 

2904. state rapacity — hoio remoteless, 
X t It is the basest Tyranny to forge 
Quarrels unjust against the Good and Loyal, 
Destroying them for Wealth. 

2905. passions — insatiable. 

2. § To an inordinate and lawless Will, 
All its more having is but as a sauce 
To make it hunger more. 

2905. pride and ambition — how malignanto 

3. There are who had they power would confound 
All Unity on Earth, and desperately 

Uproar the universal Peace, and pour 
E'en the sweet milk of Concord into Hell. 

* A very able Writer and original Thinker fras adduced 
an Argument of this Nature against Suicide : and has sup^ 
ported it by a singular and most affecting Instance. 

I This is not exactly true : nor will be, till the Appttite 
for Cruelty for Cruelty's sake ceases. 

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SIS SHAKESPERIAN [Macbeth, 

2907. PRUDENCE. 

2. § A modest Wisdom plucks the cautious Mind 
From over credulous haste. 

2908. truthy sincerity — how sacred, 

3. The Good never breaks Faith : for he delights 
No less in Truth than Life. 

2909. revolutio N — violent ; it's Character. 

4. f In the wild Fury of a Revolution, 
Griefs of an hour's Age do hiss the Speaker, 
If he would call them newest : every Minute 
Then teems a new one. 

2910. PHILANTHROPY. 

© To cure a Private 111 the noblest Medicine 
Is a Devotedness to Public Good. 

2911* GRIEF and FORTITUDE. 

Xt A Man who worthily maintains that Name, 
Will strive against his Sorrow as a Man : 
But he must also feel it as a Man, 
And can not but remember such Things were 
As were most precious to him. 

2912. boasting — 'Unmanly. 

2Ji* Better to play the Woman with the Eyes 
Than braggart with the Tongue. 

2913. patience and HOPE. 
Receive what cheer ye may : 

The Night is long that never finds a Day *. 

2914. mind — the sole principle of sensa- 

tion, 
3i. When other thoughts fill the abstracted Mind, 
The Eyes are open, but their sense is shut. 

* Equivalent in sense to this sublime Allegoric Aphorism, 
but how different in Expression is the common Proverb—* 
H 'Tis a long Lane which has no turning." 



King John.] APHORISMS. 217 

2915. CONSCIENCE. 

Power is a weak Protection against Conscience. 

2910. forethought— better than repen- 
tance. 

§t Attend to what yon do: and especially 
where what is done cannot be undone. 

2917. 
® Jfc When we see Faults in others, let us think 
That we have Faults*: we all have need to say, 
* Good God, forgive us oil.' 

2918. derangement — hoxv to be treated. 
From the disturjb-d in Mind we should remove 
The means of all annoyance: and still keep 
A watchful eye upon them ; but with care 
To make it not observed. 



KING JOHN. 

2919- truth. 
Truth is Truth. 

2920. MANNERS, 

Our Country Manners give our Betters way, 

2921. women — love COVRAQB. 

He that perforce robs Lions of their Heart 
May easily win a Woman's. 

2922. war — -too often unnecessary. 
© Easy for Nations oft it were to win 

That Pught in Peace they fiercely urge by War, 

2923. — ~— its effect on National Character. 

2. War stirs up 
All the unsettled humours of a Land, 
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery. 

* Aliorum yitiis si nimi? irascare quomodo feras tu& ? 

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318 SHAKESPERIAN King John, 

2924. GOD — JUSTICE — CONSCIENCE. 

3. f Heed that supernal Judge who stirs good 
In any breast of strong authority [thoughts 

To look into the blots and stains of Pught. 

2925. injustice-— impious and inhuman. 
Wrong slanders by Misdeeds Earth & the Heavens, 

2926. axger. 

© In Anger pause, and be more temperate. 

2927. alliance — its proper basis. 
2. Protection, to be just and honourable, 
Stands most divinely vow'd upon the Right. 

2928. Be Man no farther Enemy to Man 
Than the constraint of hospitable* zeal, 

In the relief of the opprest and helpless, 
Religiously provokes. 

2929. poverty and riches f. 

X Men being poor, their Virtue oft is this 
To say, u there is no Sin but being Rich ;" 
Who once made rich, as eagerly exclaim 
And say, " there is no Vice but Beggary/' 

2930. amity — pretended. 

2. Oft thorough Frown and the fell Rage of War 
Lurks beneath Amity and painted Peace. 

2931. kings — Heaven wars against their in- 

justice. 
Ik The Heavens are armed against perjured Kings. 

2932. peace— none hut in the mind. 

© To incensed Passions Peace itself is War. 

* u Hospitable" is here most truly classic : in Defence of 
Strangers; who are under the Protection a qc tcymu 
JovisHospitaiis. ' h ' 

f " Give me neither Poverty nor Riches: feed me with 
foo<j :onvenient for me." PROV. 



King John. APHORISMS. 319 

2£)33. wickedness — remote from true cou- 
rage. 
2, The great in Villainy are little valiant. 

2934. TEMPORIZERS. 

Ill fare those temporizing heads and hearts, 
Who ne'er are strong but on the stronger side : 
Fortune's sworn Champions; who can never fight 
But when her humourous Ladyship is by 
To teach them safety. 

2935. INDULGENCES. 

Ill counseled in the ways of Heaven are they 
Who for the Merit of vile Gold, Dross, Dust, 
Would buy corrupted Pardon of a Man, 
Who in that Sale sells Pardon from himself. 

2936. law— -where it fails, natural right w 
X When Law can do no Right [reined. 

Let it be lawful that Law bar no Right*. 

2937. MISGOVERNS! EST and ABUSE OF LAW 

— their fruits. 
H$ When Law that should be right itself is wrong, 
How can that Law forbid the Tongue to blame ? 

2938. distress produces distrust and 

DISHONESTY. [ ll P 5 

2§. Tread down distressful Need and Faith mounts 
Keep up that Need, and Faith is trodden down. 

2939. fidelity — the Breach of it is Impiety. 

3. Those who dare 
Play fast and loose with Faith, but jest at Heaven. 

29-iO. oaths to a criminal Purpose, void. 
Who swears to Sin swears that against himself 
Which may not be performed by himself. 

* The State of Nature revives when Law gives no Re- 
medy. 



320 SH AKESPERIAN IKing John, 

2<H1. BUM TREATMENT of it. 

Fire, quells Fire 
Within the scorched veins of one new burnt*, 

2942. gold may be bought too dear. 

4. Oft where the Fortune lives there the Life dies, 

2943. revenge; cruel and remorseless. 

5. Heat of vindictive Rage hath a condition 
That nothing can allay; nothing but Blood. 

294.4. destructive to those toko indulge it* 

6. Rage will burn up itself and turn to ashes. 

29±5. MENACES. 

© TlieThreaten'd may be safer than who threats: 

294:6. war — devouring. 

2. The fat ribs of Peace 
B}' ravening War are fiercely fed upon. 

20 4J\ rapacit Y — unrelenting. 
3t> Rapacity still cries, * Relent not ever; 
* Use our Commission in it's utmost force/ 

294S. 
4J. No ties or sanctions will hold Rapine back 
sWhen Gold and Silver beck him to come on. 

2949. misconduct. 

CD Can aught go well ^here Conduct still runs ilh 

2950. GENius~w?7/Ytfn/. 

2f. True military Genius still combines 
The heat of Speed with wise advice disposed, 
And ten;perate order in the fiercest course. 

2951. ENyy. 

St. They can not bear praise of an Enemy 
Who can not find a pattern for their shame, 

* Latter Writers have made a medical and surgical Pre* 
eegt which borders nearly on this a 



gJohnl APHORISMS. 321 

295*2. death— to whom welcome. 

lath is Misery's Love. 

2953. love and friendship — kowprov'd. 

4§. A true and faithful Love, inseparable, 
Knits but the closer for Calamity. 

2954. BEAUTY — GRIEF. 

5§. Sorrow eats Beauty's bud. 

2955. grief endears itself on the Principle .of 

ASSOCIATION. 

35. Grief fills the room up of departed Friends : 
Lies in th-eir bed, and walks with us like them : 
Fills out their vacant Garments with their Form' 5 ; 
Puts on their pleasing Looks, repeats their Words; 
Remembers us of all their gracious Qualities ; 
And hence with reason we are fond of Grief. 



29-56'. GItDER exti 



crnal 



4§, We do not keep the form of outward order 
When there is deep Disorder in the Mind. 

2957. shame. [taste. 
5§. Shame's Bitterness corrupts the World's swd 

2958. P R D 1 g 1 E s —the Co in age r>f Super st i : 

6. No natural exhalation in the Sky, 
No common Wind, no customed Event, 
But Superstition, from it's natural cause, 
Construes awry, and calls them Prodigies, 
Signs, fatal Presages, and tongues of Heaven, 
PJaiiriy denouncing Vengeance. 

"2 9 3 9 • disco x ten x — -p op u la r . 

7. An Enemy works much from Discontent, 
When Souls are full of new reviv'd Offence. 

* EURIP. in ALC and Madame de STAEL in her ad- 
mirable CORINN£. 



322 SHAKESPERIAN [King John. 

2960. ENNUI. 

8. Luxurious ease will be as sad as Night, 
vOnly for Wantonness. 

2961. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

9. Stern Looks sometimes dwell with a gentle 

2962. compassion. [Heart. 

10. The presence of a Man who feels compassion 
Gives Life to it in others. 

2963. 
© Who feels for others scarce can injure them. 

2904. story-telltng — Hints concerning, 
2. A Tale oft told 
Is at the last repeating troublesome : 
And most if urg'd at times unseasonable. 

2965. FEAR and GUILT — COMPANIONS. 

3. Fear still attends upon the steps of Wrongo 

2966. education — the Cruelty of neglecting. 
Ji Choak not Youth's Days with barbarous igno- 
Nor to the dawn and spring of Life deny [ranee \ 
The rich advantage of good exercise. 

2967. prudence — virtuous. 

Give not to the Time's Enemies pretence 
To grace occasion *. 

296S. grandeur — an aggravation of an un~ 
'Worthy Action. 
X t Foul play is doubly foul and doubly shame, 
When Greatness, which should check it, offers ito 

2969* danger aggravated by shutting our eyes 
to it. 
2§. On those who are afraid to hear the worst 
The worst, unheard, falls heaviest on their head, 

• So says the Apostle — " That I may cut off occasion 
from them that seek occasion*" 



King John.] APHORISMS. 323 

2970. AFFLICTION" — FORTITUDE. 

3. E'en Fortitude itself meets with amaze 
The first tide of Affliction : — that sustained, 

1 1 breathes aloft the flood : — and can give audience 
To any tongue, speak it of what it will, 

2971. fear. [fear. 

4. Their Fears are most who know not what they 

2972. w r l d — Good to meditate on it's Dangers 

and Delusions, 
Jit ? Tis good to think how many lose their way 
Amid the thorns and dangers of this world; 
How many are more lost amid it's sweets. 

2973. war, 

War snarletb in the gentle eyes of Peace. 

2974. dangers external — owe their greatest 

force to internal. 
Kt Powers from abroad, and Discontents at home, 
In one line meeting — then Confusion 
Stoops as a Raven on a sick fallen Beast 
Upon a Nation thus to Fate devote. 

2975. FORTITUDE. 

2|. The cincture of a pious Fortitude 
Holds 'gainst all Tempests. 

2976' corruptions — public. Their Remedy 
must not be procrastinated or delay d, 
o\. When with inveterate Ills the Times are sick, 
Strong present Medicine must be minister'd, 
Or Overthrow incurabie ensues. 

2977 • reform— it's true Character is peaceful, 
4f. Reform should be nor violent nor rash : 
Nor fits it that the sore of evil Times 
Should seek a plaster by contemn'd Revolt, 
And heal the canker of one an^rv wound 
x>y making many and wurse. 



324 SHAKESPERI AN [King John, 

297$' resistance — in extreme Cases. 
5. Such may be the infection of the Times 
That for the health and physic of our Right 
We can not deal but with the very hand 
Of Force ; — whose tendency is ever prone 
To stern injustice and confused wrong*. 

2979. passions conflicting. 

6f. Great Passions, wrestling in a noble Bosom^ 
Between an Error and the Love of Right, 
Do make an Earthquake. 

2980. VALOUR. 

7§. Valour is emulous to win Renown 
Even in the jaws of Danger and of Death • 

2981. REVOLT. 

8. Revolt, when happy, has another Name. 

2982. testimony — of a dying Man. 

9. He that hath hideous Death before his view 
Retaining but a quantity of Life, 

Which melts away, even as a Form of wax 
Resolvetb from his figure 'gainst the fire, 
What in the World should make him then deceive, 
When he must lose the fruit of all deceit ? 
Why should he then be false ? since it is true 
That he must die here, and live hence by truth. 

2983. prosperity — dissipates; adversity 

regulates. 

10. Those who run not in Prosperity, 
"Will often, when Adversity blows strong, 

* The Maxim of CICERO from PLATO is as true and 
just as benevolent. " Vim neque Parentibus neque Patriae 
inferandam :" Bat that force maybe repeii'd which must 
not be ofTer'd, 



King John.] APHORISMS. 325 

Shrink from their bankless* and irregular course ; 
Stoop low within those bounds they have o'erlookt^ 
And calmly run on in obedience, 
E'en to their Ocean. 

293-i. WATCHFULNESS— JUOraL 

5?. A virtuous Watchfulness will guard itself, 
Lest Hope or Fear tempt it beyond its power f. 

2985. prognostic Medic a L — Delirium . 

3. Oft at the near approach of Death, the Brain, 
(Which some suppose the Soul's frail Dwelling- 
house) 
Doth, by the idle Comments that it makes, 
Foretell the ending of Mortality. 

2986. SINGING. 

© Singing is sometimes known to take place 
in nervous illnesses, where it has been unusual, 
or never practis'd by the party before. 

2987. 

'Tis strange that Death should sing; 
Yet there have been who, like the fabled Swan, 
Have chanted solemn Hymns to their own Death, 
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sung 
The Soul and Body to their lasting rest!. 

* BanHess was the conjectural reading of my Mother, in 
whose hand I have seen it. It preserves the Unity of the 
Mstajikor 1 and is confirmed by his favorite OVID — " Da? 
rant quoque littora Ponto" 

f " GOD is faithful : who will not suffer you to be tempted 
beyond that which ye are able : but will with the tempta* 
tion make a way to escape." I. COR. x. 

\ That great Master, MOZART, composed the Requiem, 
for his own Death (and it is thought one of his finest Compo- 
sfcions) some few days before he died. And just before his 
Death he requested his Wife to bring it: and it was per- 
formed, 

if 

\ 



326 SHAKESPERIAN [Richard IL 

298S. death — the Teacher of princes. 
-§ What surety in the World, what hope, what stay, 
"When what but now was King is now but Clay. 

29&9* peace ensured by being fully prepared 
against war. 
i© An Enemy is more dispos'd to Peace 
Which we with Honor and Respect may take, 
Seeing us sinew'd in our own Defence. 

2990. accusation — on State-Charges. 
K Regard the Motives of the' Accuser well : 
Whether they spring from any hidden Malice r 
Or worthily, and as in truth they should, 
from some known Ground of Crime in the aeeus*d> 



RICHARD IL 

2991. ANGER. 

2. Deaf as the Sea, hasty as Fire, is Anger* 

2992. lies. 

3. Hateful to God and to good Men are Lies* 
-2993, KINGS. 

4. The eye.s and ears of Kings should be irftpaftiaU 
299±> 

© 111 can Kings sue; accustomed to command. 

29fr5. age — should. be pacific. 
Ht To be a Peace-maker becomes old Age. . 

2996* honor not to be sacrificed to any Const- 
deraiion of Hope or tear. 
That fair Name __. 
Which in despite of Death lives on the Grave, 
To dark Dishonor's wse let no Man have, 

c 2997- 
%% In Honor live;^ and for true Honor dw, 



Richard II.] s APHORISMS. 32f 

2998. revenge — is not for Man. 

>£t Anticipate not the dread Will of Heaven, 
Who, when it sees the Hours ripe on Earth, ^ 
Will rain hot Vengeance on the' Offenders' heads, 5 

2999. AGE — AFFECTION. 

2. In an old blood may live Affection's fire. 

3000. crimes unresisted are encouraged. 

3. In suffering another to be slaughtered, 
Men shew a naked pathway to their lives, 
Teaching stern Murther how to butcher them. 

3001. PATIENCE — DESPAIR. 

© What is call'd Patience oft is but Despair. 

3002. grief assimilates every thing to it's oix.n 

Feelings. 
2, To the sorrowful Sorrow seems to dwell every 

3003. climax. [where. 
The daintiest last ; to make the end most sweet. 

3004-. heaven — we should be cautious to xoh at 
zve implore it's Aid. 
3Jfc. Who ask Heaven's aid should feel their 
Cause is good. 

3005. courage. 

The valiant live. 

3006. physiognomy. 

Xt A quick and wise Observer may discern 
Virtue with Valour couched in the Eye. 

3007. w a r — c 1 v 1 l — unnatural. 

2. The Earth of any State should not be soiled 
With that dear blood which it hath fostered. 

3008. ENVY. 

§ Envy hates a Rival. 



rf2 



328 SHAKESPERIAN [Richard II. 

3009. comfort — universal. 

% The Sun that warms us here shines o'er the 
And gilds e'en Banishment, [Earth, 

3010. exile perpetual — one of the most cruel 

of Punishments. 
X Hopeless that word is — u Never to return/' 

3011. 
X Not far that Sentence is from speechless Death, 
Which robs the tongue from breathing native 
breath. 

3012. conscience — aguilty, howburthensome. 

Bear not along 
The clogging burthen of a guilty Soul. 

3013. EXILE. 

To the poor Exile all the World's his way*. 
30 14. J u d g e — no Man should be in his own, Cause, 
© Judge not a Cause which near concerns thyself; 
Lest in the very dread to be thought partial, 
A contrary bias urge unseen; 
And seeking but that slander to avoid, 
The party, and thyself, and justice perish. 

3015. A FFECTION — PARTING — SILENCE. 

2f. Affection has no lanouage to take leave 
When the tongue's office would be prodigal, 
To breathe the* abundant dolour of the Heart, 

30 i 6. A F F L 1 CT 10 N — FO R T ITU D E . 

Woe doth the heavier sit 
Where it is faintly borne. 

3017. IRRITATION. 

Fell Sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more 
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. 

* The Worid was all before them, where to chuse 
Their Place of Rest, and Providence their Guide. 

P, L, 



Richard IL] APHORISMS. 3^9 

3018. exile alienates not a good Citizen. 
© If banisht, to thy Country still be true. 

3019. popularity — affected, 

2. The artful dive into the popular Heart 
By humble and familiar Courtesy, 
While purer Spirits rather are than seem. 

3020. 

3. The artful and the falsely popular 
Throw their high-acted reverence on the vile, 
Inflame their passions and adore their vice. 
The truly popular are simple, free; 

And with calm reason move no other ends, 
Nor those by other means, than well beseem 
The steady Virtue of the Wise and Good. 

3021. war — vigilance and celerity. 
Kt Expedient manage must be made in War, 
Ere leisure yield means to an active Foe 

For their advantage and our certain loss. 

3022. succour treacherous. 

2. Hypocrisy, when it pretends to aid, 

Makes much of seeming haste, and comes too late. 

3023. advice — ichers fruitless. 

3. In vain comes Counsel to a self-clos'd Ear. 
3024. 

Deaf is an ear, when stopt by flattering sounds, 
To wise and virtuous Counsel. 

3025. old-age — ?nonitori/. [last 

4. Virtuous and wise Old-age would breathe it's 
In wholesome Counsel to yet unstay'd Youth. 

3026. pain — sincerity. 

§ Those lips breathe Truth which breathe their 

3027. imitation. [words in Pain. 
Aukward and lame is servile Imitation. 

f i3 



330 SHAKESPERIAN [Richard II, 

3028. excess — short-livd. 
He tires by times that spurs too fast by times. 

3029* 
With eager feeding Food doth choak the Feeder. 

3030. atrophy — Causes of it. 

© Watching and Solitude and Grief consume. 

3031. SYMPATHY. 

f Those iil theirselves are worse seeing others ill. 

3032. experience — Profit by it. 

§ Give not thyself, unthinking, to the Care 
Of those Physicians that first wounded thee*, 

3033. sovereignty — it's Limits. 
§ All legal State is subject to the Law. 

3034. tyranny. 

Tyranny heeds Relationship nor Years f, 

3035. optimism. 
K§ All is best as His. 

3036. DEATH. 

f When hearing of the Death of others, think 
Their Time is spent. Our Pilgrimage must be. 

3037. morality — verbal. 

© Morality may float upon the Tongue, 
The Heart corrupt the while, or negligent. 

3038. war — costly. 

Great Exigence of War demands great Charge, 

3039. VALOUR-te. 

2. In War a Lion; and in Peace a Lamb J. 

# Vzyfisv le 7/ vv k TTioq zyvco, HOM. 

f AtpgriTCiQf), cc9e^igrcg y ctvsgTiog. ij) 

A^r f g ^^STay^iz criTStTcxi. 

i This Aphorism hag been made the Foundation of a good 
Sea, Soflfir. 



Richard II.] APHORISMS. 331 

3040. FROWNS. 

3. Be Frowns against our Enemies ; — not Friends. 
304 1 . prodigalit y — in whom ?nost disgraceful. 

4. Earn what you spend. And spend not basely 
Which worthy hands have honorably won. [that 

3042. FREEDOM O/SPEEGH. 

Xt A just and generous Liberty of Speech 
Accepted or reserted is content. 

3043. injustice. 

2§. Injustice brings with it a thousand Dangers, 

3044. confidence — betray' d. 

3J. That Tongue has ill deserved the use of Speech 
Which treacherous utters words to do Friends 

3045. friendship. [harm. 
4. Quick are Friends' Ears to hear aught good 

toward Friends. 

3046. COURAGE. 

t Doubts which the brave scorn urge to them 
that fear. 

3047* AFFECTION. 

Love to please others does what it could ndt 
To please itself. 

304 S . melancho L Y— full of Presages. 
X A tender and a melancholy Mind 
Still thinks some Sorrow hid in Fortune's womb 
Is coming toward it; and the inward Soul 
At nothing trembling as at all things grieves, 

3049. commerce — ifs SPIRIT. 

2. The Love of overgrown commercial States 
Lies in their purses. And who empties those 
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate, 

3050. roads rough. 

Bough Roads will make e'en few Miles wearisome, 



332 SHAKESPERIAN [Richard IL 

3051. ambition— Jtatters. 
Expected Dignity is full of Thanks 
To whatsoe'er can aid it's aggrandizement. 

3052. 
2. Thanks are the free Exchequer of the Poor 
When Vanity and keen Ambition prompt. 

3055. IMPARTIALITY. 

K Look on the' injurious with impartial Eye. 

3054. PERJURY. 

1f HI may he hope for Joy that breaks an Oath, 

3055. crime. [loth, 
G Who break their Country's Laws at first are 
And Guilt while young is frightened at itself*. 

3056. banishment. 

K Most bitter is the bread of Banishment. 

3057. ease and 'alternate labour, 
A while to work ; and after, Holiday. 

3058. god. 

© The Power that makes is mighty to preserve. 

3059- fortitude and resignation. 
Kt A firm fixt Heart will think, whatever befalls, 
The worst it can unfold is worldly Loss. 

3060. death — a Motive to fortitude. 

§ Sorrow, Destruction, Loss, Decay, and Ruin, 
All end in Death. 

3061. HEAVEN OBEDIENCE. 

2. However high, the Heavens are o'er thine head 1 
Know this ; and be not rebel to their Will. 

306'2. grief excessive. 

3. Sorrow and Grief of Heart 

.Will speak as frantic. 

f Nemo repente ftut turpissimus* JUV. 



diehard IL] APHORISMS. 333 

3063. HYPOCRISY. 

4. Far better is it that the Heart feel Love, 
Than that the unpleas'd eye see Courtesy. 

30^4. INDUSTRY, ABILITY, INTEGRITY. 

5[ They well deserve to have, 
That know the surest, fairest way to get. 

306d. necessity — tobeobeyedicith agoodGracz* 
What must perforce be done, as willing do*. 

3066. CHANGE — RUMOUR. 

Against a Change unnumber'd Tongues are open'd, 
306*7. presentiment. 

Woe is fore-run with Woe. 
SOfj-S. children— bad. 

Unruly Children make their Sire 
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. 

3069. equality — political. 

5§. All must be even in good Government. 

3070. corruption. 

6f. Corruption is a base and noisome weed 

That only to it's own vile Profit sucks 

The soil's fertility from wholesome Flowers. 

3071. justice— -judicial. 

Thieves are not judg'd but they are by to hear. 

3072. GREATNESS GOODNESS. 

O He is not great who is not greatly good. 

3073. FORTITUDE. 

X$ Fawn not on Rage with base humility. 

3074. PATIENCE. 

f§ Take just Correction mildly. 

3075. G u r lt — insatiate and in grateful, [tion, 
When foul Sin, gathering head, breaks to Corrupt 

* Fata yolentem ducunt, nolentexn trahunt. 



\ 



33* SH AKESPERI AN [Richard II. 

All it's vast Spoils appear as nothing-worth, 
And what hath serv'd it most is most abhorr'd. 

3076. 
"§ The Love of wicked Friends soon turns to Hate*. 

3077. absence better than fore d society. 
2. Better far off than near, in Love not near. 

3078. popularity — variable,* 
3f. As in a Theatre the Eyes of Men, 
After a well-grac'd Actor leaves the Stage, 
Are idly bent on him that enters next, 
Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; 

So popular Favor waits on chance and change. 

3079. justice and forbearance toward 

RELATIONS. 

Gt As far as Justice and the Public Weal 
Permits, divulge not trespass of thine own ; 
Yet Duty still to Kindred be preferred. 

3080. CONSPIRACY. 

X Conceal not dark murtherous Conspiracy. 

3081. EDUCATION. 

2. Through dissolute and seeming desperateYouth 
Cherish what sparks of Good there may appear, 
Which elder years may happily bring forth. 

3082. FEAR—- REPENTANCE. 

3. Fear without Love begets false Penitence. 

3083. INGRATITUDE. 

4f. Ingratitude is Treason 'gainst the unhappy, 
For thus it teaches — too persuasively — • 
Forbear to pity: — lest thy Pity prove 
A Serpent that will sting thee to the Heart, 

* Nulla Amicitia nisi inter Bonos. CIC, 



Henry IF.] APHORISMS. 535 

308-i. EXCESS. 

5§. The overflow of Good converts to Bad*. 

o085. ORATORY. 

6f. Wouldst thou know 
Who pleads in earnest, look upon his face, 
His air and gesture!. 

30So\ casuistry —false. 
f[ Duplicity and captious Casuistry 
Will set the Word itself against the Word. 

3087- EXAMPLE. 

ft Take not for Crime a refuge in Example, 
That thou art not the first of Vice's Slaves, 
And shalt not be the last. — Like silly Beggars* 
Who, sitting in the Stocks, refuge their Shame, 
That many have, and others must sit there f. 

3088. music — it's Power. 

§ Music hath helpt e'en Madmen to their Wits, 

3089. g re atx ess — under Calamity > grateful, 
Greatness, when fallen, hails with gratitude 
The smallest sign of Love. 



HENRY IV.— 1st Fart. 

3090. reputation — hoiv valuable, exen in 

point of Interest. 
Kt The Reputation of Honesty is so valuable, 
even in point of Interest, that if a good name 

* Est Modus in rebus ; sunt certi denique Fines 
Ouos uitra citraque nequit consistere Rectum 
Insani sapiens nomen ferat, sequus iniqui 
Ultra quam satis est Virtutem si petat ipsarn. HOR, 

\ Tu, Marce Calidi, nisi nngeres sic agercs ! 

f Thou shah not follow a Multitude to do Evil. EX0D. 



336 SIIAKESPERIAN [Henry tV. 

were to be bought, such a commodity in the 

market would bring Rogues without number to 

out-bid each-other for it*. 

3091. wisdom — her Warnings disregarded, 
§ Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no Man 

regards herf. 

30Q2. wit — Abuse of it. 

Witty Profaneness is a dangerous Corrupter. 

3093. habits-— -6ad. 

2. Where there are bad Habits a slight Temp- 
tation overcomes good Resolutions. 

3094. prayers — without Principle. 

Where there is no foundation in Principle, the 
Transition may be very short from Praying to 
Purse-taking. 

3095. PROFESSIONS and TRADES JlOW 

abuses in them attempted to be excused. 
f Persons excuse many Frauds and bad Prac- 
tices to themselves under the pretence that it is 
no sin for a Man to labour in his Vocation. 

3096. religion — none without morality. 

3. The idea that Men are to be saved without 
regard to their Conduct is very encouraging to 
Villainy. 

3097. example — bad. 

^\ If Abuses want countenance, the misconduct 
of those who are called the Great is too ready to 
give them. 

* The famous CHARTERS is reported to have said on 
his Death-bed, that if he thought he should live another 
twelvemonth he would give a Thousand Pounds for a good 
Name, and make an Hundred per Cent, of it. 
f Allusion to Pro v. 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS. 337 

3098. RECREATION. 

§ Delights which come but seldom wisht for come ; 
And all things satiate but strange Accidents*. 

3099. PRIDE PRETENSIONS. 

§ The Proud Soul pays respect but to the Proud, 

3100. KINGS. 

Majesty ill is temper'd to endure 
The moody frontier of a subject brow. 

3101. submission — temporizing . 
2£f Submission and Rewards to Enemies 

Is to buy Treason and indent with Fears. 

3102. DIGNITY INJUSTICE. 

2. 'Tis shameful to Nobility and Power 
To gage them both in an unjust behalf. 

3103. PASSION. 

3. Passion starts away, 
And lends no ear to sober purposes. 

310-i. 4. Talk not to those in Passion, 

Till they are better temper'd to attend. 

3105. 
5. Before the Game's afoot Passion lets slip. 

3 1 06. f Y R a N n y — suspicious and in grateful. 
© A Power unjustly rais'd is prone to think 
Unsatisfied those by whose aid it rose, 
And for Reward oft pays with Punishment. 

310/. COURAGE — FORTUNE. 

The brave bear Fortune in their own strong Arms, 
Rather than hold her at uncertainty. 

3108. PICK-PURSES. 

Great Pick-Purses and little differ as giving 
direction does from labouring. 

TlavTMv jjlcV Kogo; sctt/. hom, 



338 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IK 

3109. pick -purses — political, (he worst. 

§ No Knavery worse than that which preys on 
the Commonwealth. 

3110. confidence and fi DEL it y — necessary 

even among Thieves. 
§ Even Thieves in general are forced to be true 
to one another. 

3111. WISDOM — COURAGE SAFETY. 

I From the midst of the Nettle Danger, Wisdom 
and Courage pluck the Flower Safety*. 

3112. enterprise — Means o/*success. 

A dangerous Attempt requires steady 
Friends, a well- chosen Opportunity, a Plan well 
formed and conducted, to have any reasonable 
prospect of Success. 

3113. SECRET-HUNTERS, 

Kt Who urge you for a Seeret y this believe 1 
They will not utter what they do not know 
And so far you may stretch your Confidence, 

3114. self-knowledge — pos&esst by feic. 
© Cowards rail at Cowardice f. 

3115. BRAGGING. 

>£ The Lies of a Braggart are gross a3 aMoaa- 
tain, open, palpable. 

3116. COMPULSION. 

2|. Nothing worth having is to be had upo^ 
Compulsion. 

AiSopevtoy ^uvd^cov TrXecvsg cooi ye 

Trelpavrocr* 
Tf>e<r<rccvTc<Jv ^%}' ccg Kheog o^vrui % 

&*£% AXKyj- HOM. 

f . Ciodius accusat McecliGH CataJina Cethegwn. JU V* 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS. 339 

3117. FALSEHOOD — TRUTH. 

The Parade of Falsehood is easily put down 
by plain Truth. 

3118. INSTINCT. 
Instinct is a great Matter. 

3119. youth — Waste of it. 

Though the Camomile the more it is trodden 
grows the faster, yet Youth the more it is wasted 
the faster it wears. 

3120. company— bad; corruptive. 
§ As pitch defileth, so bad Company. 

3121. VANITY — AGE. 

3. Vanity doubly misbecomes Years. 

3122. CONSCIENCE — PHYSIOGNOMY. 

A true Face and a good Conscience. 

3123. TRUTH. 

Tell Truth and shame the Devil. 

3124. verse — affected. 

§ A mincing and affected turn of Verse 
Is like the forced gait of a shuffling Nag. 

3125. LIBERALITY TEN ACIOU SN ESS. 

4. The Man who will give freely, nay profusely, 
To any deem'd a well-deserving Friend, 

May be the same who, in the way of Bargain, 
Will cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 

3126. PATIENCE TRIALS of it. 

5f. Trials of mortal Patience these indeed, 
A smoky House, tir'd Horse, and railing Wife. 

3127. courtesy. [Hearts. 
6§. Courtesy plucks sure Homage from Men's 

3128. popularity — too much courted is lost. 
7t. Those who too eager of the public gaze, 
Enfeoff themselves to Popularity, 

Gg2 



340 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IF. 

And daily are devour' d by wondering eyes, 
Soon find that honey surfeits ; and of sweets 
More than a little is by much too mach. 

3129. CELERITY DELAY. 

© Occasion thrives; Success pines by Delay*. 

3130. FLATTERY. 

K§ A brave Man cannot flatter; and a great 
Defies the tongues of Flatterers. 

3131. policy — defensive in war. 
§ 'Tis ill to set the fortune of a State 

AH at one cast: — to throw so rich a main 
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour, 
And try at once, by misadvised rashness, 
The very bottom and last bound of hope. 

3132. COWARDICE GLUTTONY. 

The latter end of a Fray and the beginning of a 
Fits a dull Fighter and a keen Guest. [Feast 

3133. war — when to urge or delay Battle. 
Consider in War whose supplies are certaiq, 

and whose doubtful : and urge or delay Battle 
accordingly. 

3134. greatness conscious. 
Greatness knows itself. 

3135. patriotism — Characters of true fy false. 
2f. False Patriotism, till it gain it's end, 

Is as the true, in many semblances. 
Like that it takes upon*it to r-eform 
Oppressive Judgements and injurious Laws 
That bear too hard upon the Common-weal; 
Cries out upon Abuses; seems to weep 

* Katpc*) v-/}v 7ravrocJsKsiTai* THEOCR, 

Ut qui conduct^ plorant in funere, dicunt, 

Et faciunt prope, plura dolentibus ex animo, sic 

Perisor vero plus laudatore movetur. HOR. 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS, 341 

Over the Country's Wrongs : and by this face 
Of seeming Zeal and Justice craftily 
It wins those hearts for which it's bait is thrown. 
But know it by these signs :— 'tis flattering, cruel, 
Pompous, and full of sound, and studied Rage ; 
Of faith neglectful ; heaping wrong on wrong; 
Ambitious ; selfish ; — while the true is calm, 
Firm, persevering, more in Act than Shew. 

3136. hope. 
© Hope temperately. [if self. 

3137- externals — the mind assimilates to 

2. All outward ill from inward takes it's force; 
No weather appears bad to those who win. 

3133. AMBITION. 
Ambition is eccentric, devious, wild, 
Blazing in terrors of abhorred War ; 
And scorns to move in that obedient Orb 
Where it might give a fair and natural Light ; 
More proud to flame as an 'exhaled Meteor, 
A Prodigy of Fear, and a Portent 
Of boundless mischief to the unborn times. 

313$* INGRATITUDE. 

3. Ingratitude acts as the Cuckoo-Bird 
Uses the Sparrow, thrusting from that Nest 
Where it has grown to such a prosperous bulk 
The very offspring foster'd with itself. 

3140. REBELLION. 

The Garment of Rebellion still is fae'd 
With some fine colour that may please the eye 
Of fickle changelings and poor discontents, 
Which gape and rub the elbow at the new ; 
Of hnrly- burly Innovation : 
And never ye: did Insurrection want 
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342 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IF. 

Such water-colours to impaint his cause, 
Nor moody Beggars starving for a time 
Of pell-mell havock and confusion*. 

3141. KINGS. 

KtTrue Kings still love their People: — even 
That are misled upon Rebellion's part : [those 
And what the Good thus feel the rest pretend. 

3142. DETRACTION. 

Of Detraction will hardly suffer Honour, — 
which the Dead are either below or above, — to 
live with the best deserving of the Living. 

3 1 43 . t r e a s o N always distrusted. 

X Treason is still but trusted like the Fox : 
Who ne'er so tame and cherisht is lockt up 
Suspect of wild tricks of his Ancestors. 
Look how Men can, or sad or merrily, 
Who once have been at War against a King, 
Interpretation still misquotes their looks, 
And they are fed like Oxen at a stall, 
The better cherisht still the nearer Death. 

3144. LEADERS in CRIME. 

Who are the Spring of all must pay for all. 

3145. VALOUR DUTY DANGER. 

True Valour still is found where Duty lies, 
Whate'er the Peril. 

* Here is Rebellion painted in it's strongest and most in- 
vidious Colours by one who had been a Rebel, and was 
then an Usurper. Yet we mav think with BACON and 
MONTESQUIEU, and ROUSSEAU; and with LIVY and 
TACITUS, and MACHIAVEL, that popular Insurrections 
have their source almost always in real and great and general 
Grievances unredresst : — however the Selfishness of some and 
the Violence of others pervert the general Impulse from ifc'a 
true Object and Limits, 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS. 343 

31-lS. KINDRED — MERIT. 

Affection loves a Broiher as a Brother ; 

But Worth makes him respected as our Souls. 

3147. HONOUR. 

2. Honour ne'er promises but he means to pay. 

3148. THOUGHT LIFE TIME. 

§ E'en Time, that takes survey of all the World, 
Must have a Stop. 

3149. IDENTITY. 

He is but the counterfeit of a- Man who has not 
the Life of a Man*. 

3150. RESIGNATION. 

Patiently endure 
What not to be avoided falls on thee f . 

3151. valour respects itself in an enemy. 
§ Valour will teach to cherish it's high Deeds 
Even in the bosom of our Adversaries... 

3152. perseverance. 

© An Enterprize, when fairly once begun, 
Should not be left till all that ought is won. 

3153. rumour. - 

Rumour from Orient to the drooping West, 
Making the Wind his Post-horse, still unfolds ' 
The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth ; 
Upon his Tongue continual Slanders ride, 
The which in every language he pronounces, 
Stufnng the ears of Men with false Reports. 

* Mens cujusque, IS est cuique. CIC. So COOPER, 
fete of Manchester ; now of America, 

'f T^jou kgc7\co; %^ BsoBeu 6<pvj7piov 

K.OCZG/'. 
; Nil aetunfc.reputans d\im auid superesset agendum, 

JLUCAN of C-ffiSAR. 



3U SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IK 

PART IT. 

3154. COMMANDER — JlW DEATH. 

X A Leader's Death, whose Spirit lent a fire 
E'en to the dullest Peasant in his Camp, 
Being bruited once, takes fire and heat away 
From the best tempered Courage of his Troops. 

3155. ACTION. 

25T- Action has little time to spare to mourn. 

3156. passion — Energies created by it. 

3§. News which would make men sick if they 

were well 
Oft makes them, in some measure, well when sick ; 
E'en as the Wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints, 
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, 
Impatient of a tit, breaks like a fire 
Out of his Keeper's Arms— so doth strong Passion 
Make the awaken'd Spirit thrice itself*. 

3157. passion fy rashness— h ore destructive, 
© Passion and Pwashness in a public Cause 

Betray the Lives of Thousands. 

3158. calamities — where probable, should be 
met without Surprise. 
Jl % Who hazards much, with Fortitude should bear 
Events which may be seen as probable : 
Nor sink beneath the shock, when nought befalls 
More than that being which was like to be. 
3 1 59> obedienc E-of little Value unless voluntary. 
3. Well that Leader binds his Followers 
Whom both with Body and with Mind they follow, 

* Anger and even Terror have been known to remove a 
fit of the Gout ; to give activity to the bedridden ; and to 
produce instantaneous and n^ost extraordinary Eft&gi&£ 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS. 3i5 

3l60, FRIENDS — ADVERSITY, 

In great Emergencies make Friends with speed. 

3161. 
X Friends never fewer than where most the Need. 

3162. "WIT SYMPATHY. 

2. True Wit is not only Wit in itself ; but by Sym- 
pathy and Excitement the Cause of Wit in others, 

3163. VANITY. 

3. Vanity may keep Persons in favour with 
themselves who are out of favour with all others. 

3164. deafness — moral. 

4. There are those who are deaf to the hearing 
of every thing good. 

3165. apoplexy — Causes of it. 

5. Apoplexy may have it's origin from Study ; 
from much Grief; from perturbation of the Brain, 
howsoever caus'd. 

3166. INATTENTION — STUDY — CONVERSA- 

TION—ACTION. 

6f. The Disease of not listening — the Malady 
of not marking — is a great Evil either in Study, 
or Conversation, or Action. 

3167. PATIENCE. 

7. It is easier to be as Poor as Job than as 

3168. prodigality. [Patient. 
The most prodigal would often wish that their 

means were more and their expense less. 

3l69- prudence. 
§ Where all is well, keep it so. 

3170. 
§ Awake not a sleeping Wolf. 

3171. age. 

White Hairs should have, to a reasonable de- 
gree, the effect of Gravity. 



346 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IV. 

3172. DISSIPATION. 

• Where Dissipation lights the Candle, the 
better part soon burns out. 

3173. society — corruptive, 

A bad Man who has Wit and Humour is an. 
evil Angel for a Companion, 

3174. MALICE ENVY. 

© All the good Gifts of Man> as Malice and 
Envy shapes them, are of no worth, 

3175. AGE— YOUTH. 

K Those that are old are ill Measurers, fre- 
quently, of the capacities of the young. 

5176. AGE — SIGNS. 

A moist eye; a dry hand; a yellow cheek; a 
white beard. 

3177. age— when honourable and happy. 

Q Happy is that Age which shews itself only 
in matured Judgment and Understanding. 

3178. age — youth — VICES. 

- Age and Covetousness ; Youth and Excess:— 
both have their appropriate Punishments. 

3179. EXTR A V AG AN CE-BORRO WING-WANT. 

Kt To the idle and extravagant there is no 
Remedy against the Consumption of the Purse. 
Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out: but 
the Disease is incurable. 

3180. war. [Means, 
2. Tis fit to hear War's Cause and know it's 
And plainly speak what may be hop'd or fear'd. 
Conjecture, Expectation, and Surmise 

Of Aids uncertain, should not be admitted. 

3181. how cautiously to be hazarded. 

f When we have seen the figure of our House, 
Then we must rate the Cost of the Erection, 



Henry IV, .] APHORISMS. 317 

Which if we find outweighing our ability, 

What do we then, but draw anew the Model 

With fewer Offices ; or, at last, desist 

To build at all ? — Much more in the great Work 

Of War, of Conquest, of Defence, of Change, 

And Revolution, we should well survey 

The plot of situation and the model? 

Consent upon a sure Foundation, 

Question Surveyors, know our own Estate; 

How able such a Work to undergo ; 

How weighing against our opposite :— or else 

We fortify in paper and in figures, 

Using the Names of Men instead of Men ; 

Like one that draws the Model of a House 

Beyond his power to build it ; — who, half through, 

Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created Cost, 

A naked Subject to the weeping Clouds, 

And waste for churlish Winter's Tyranny*, 

3182. 
? Tis best to rate our Hopes as if possessing 
The very utmost Man of Expectation, 
Not trusting to fair Prospects, which may fail, 

3183. truth — Perversion of it. 
© To wrench Truth is disgraceful. 

3 1 84. J CTSTIC E — W ISDOM — VORTITUDE, 

§ It is not a confident brow, nor a throng of 
words with impudent sauciness, that can thrust 
Justice and Wisdom from their level consideration. 

3185. DEBTS — REPENTANCE. 

© f As Debts may be discharged by Money, 
Crimes by Repentance : but there is a fake 
Coin in both which discharges neither. 

* Lu. xiv. 2fc. 



348 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IF. 

3186. self-love deceitful. 

2. If Assurance be her own Judge, impudent 
Sauciness may be called honourable Boldness. 

3187. end. 

The End tries the Man. 

3188. company — bad. 

3. He who keeps vile company must be content 
if his best Virtues and Affections are thought 
Hypocrisy. 

3189. opinions; common — often false. 

4. He who thinks with the many must often 
think wrong. 

3190. YOUTH — CORRUPTION, 

2£ O that a good Blossom could be alwavs 
kept from cankers. 

3191. MORTALITY IMMORTALITY. 

® Those who are most anxious for the mortal 
care little for the immortal. 

3192. errors — past. 

>£ Spare new lamenting antient Oversights. 

3194. DANGER. 

2. In times of Trial Danger must be sought . 
Or it will seek us in another place, 
And find us worse provided. 

3195. DOUBT. 

3t- A Mind in doubt by opposite Motions swav'd y 
Is as the Tide swell'd to it's utmost height, 
That makes a still-stand, running neither way. . 

3196'. HEART. 
4ff. A good Heart is worth Gold, and more thaa 

SIQ?. HOSPITALITY — towhom. [Gold. 

If Bar no honest Man your House. 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS. 349 

3198. CAPTAIN. 

5. Captain is a Name that should not be taken 
before it is earnt. 

3199* INSIGNIFICANCE. 

6. Those who can do nothing but speak nothings 
must pass for nothing. 

3200. appetite — unseasonable. 
§ It is humiliating where Desire outlives Perfor- 

320L. slander — cowardice. [mance. 

© 5f Cowardice will slander the most virtuous* 

3202. SIN — CORRUPTION. 

Sin gathering head, 
Breaks into dire Corruption. 

3203. FORTITUDE. 

X If His be necessary, 
Then let us meet them like Necessities, 

3204. DEATH. 
Death is certain to all. 

3205. LANGUAGE. 

Good Phrases are very commendable. 

3206. NON-EMPLOYMENT. 

§ Things that lack use grow mouldy*. 

3207. DANGER in WAR. 

Ne'er bear abase Mind ;a Man can die but once f, 

3208. 

f No Man can be too good to serve his Prince 
and his Country. 

* Si non utare, Rubigo consumit. CIC. 

The very Argument of Sarpedon. HOM. 

f By some late Laws for recruiting the Navy and Army, 
one should suppose the Reverse had been believed* 



H h 



350 8HAKESPERIAN [Henri/ IV. 

3209. mind; not mass. 

2* Regard not 
The bulk and big assemblage of a Man : 
Look to his Spirit. 

3210. TIME. 

Time shapes all things to their End. 

3211. bishops — should be Friends to peace. 
3§\ 111 fits it Bishops, Ministers of Peace, 
Whose See is by a civil Peace maintained ; 
Whose Beard the silver hand of Peace hath toucht; 
Whose Learning and good Letters Peace hath 

tutor' d ; 
Whose white Investments figure Innocence, 
The Dove and very blessed Spirit of Peace : 
111 fits it such that they translate theirselves 
Out of the Speech of Peace, that bears such Grace* 
Into the harsh and boisterous Tongue of War ; 
Turning their Books to Glaives ; their Ink toBlood ; 
Their Pens to Lances ; and their Tongue divine 
To a loud Trumpet and a Point of War. 

3212. war — Reasons for it ; and Consequences 

to be strictly weighed* 

4§. Who goes to War 
Should in most equal Balance justly weigh 
What Wrongs their Arms may do* what Wrongs 

they sutler, 
And find their Griefs heavier thati the Redress* 

3213. occasion,, [[run: 
5§* Men see which ^vay the stream of Time doth 
But are enforct from their most quiet sphere 

By the rough torrent of Occasion. 

3214. necessity. 

6* Construe the Times to their Necessities* 



Henry IV.] APHORISMS. 351 

3215. compulsion. 

7f. Be cautious of an offer when compelFd ; 
As it proceeds from Policy, not Love. 

3216. cause — Good, 

8. Where the Cause is best, 
There Reason wills the Heart should be as good. 

3217. Bad. 

A rotten Cause abides no handling. 

3218. 
An obstinate Rejection of all Terms 
Oft argues but the shame of an offence. 

3219. COMMANDER IN CHIEF his PotCer. 

Qf. In matters military, Power to hear, 
And, for his State, determine on Conditions, 
Is comprehended in the General's Name *. 

3220. pardon — once granted, the amnesty 

should be complete. 

10. Pardon once allowed, 
A King should keep no tell-tale in his Memory 
That may record and history his loss 
To new Remembrance f. 

3221. prognostics — Moral. 
Against ill Chances men are ever merry; 
But heaviness foreruns the good event]:. 

* Not so for another independent State ; no# beyond mili- 
tary Limits. See WORDS WORTH'S most eloquent, ar- 
gumentative, and high principled Treatise on the CONVEN- 
TION of CINTRA. 

f JUJLIUS CjESAR is a memorable instance of this Ge- 
nerosity and Policy united : in destroying unread the List of 
the adverse Party found after the Battle of PHARSALIA. 

\ It may be explain'd thus : — That careless Gaiety is the 
Forerunner of Calamity ; Vigilance of Success and permanent 
Welfare. 

. H h 2 



352 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IV. 

3222. DESERT. 

11$. Let Desert shine and mount to it's due 

3223. treachery. [Station. 
§ Treacherous Men are mostly Fools and Cowards. 

3224. wit. 

§ Quick, inventive, spirited, and delightful 
ideas, delivered over to the tongue, become ex- 
cellent Wit. 

3225. inattention — revolts. 

12. Lose not the advantage of a powerful Friend 
By seeming cold and careless of his Will. 

3226. tempers — unequal; management. 

13. Some men have Tears for Pity, and a Heart 
Open as love to melting Charity ; 

Yet, notwithstanding, being incens'd, are flint; 
As humourous as Winter, and as sudden 
As flaws congealed in the Spring of Day : 
Such Tempers therefore must be well observ'd. 
Notice their faults : — but do.it reverently, 
When they are easy and dispos'd to bear it ; 
But being moody, give them line and scope, 
Till that their Passions, like a Whale aground, 
Confound themselves in working. 

3227- habits; bad — not often revcrs'd. 
'Tis seldom that the Bee doth leave her comb 
In the dead carrion. 

'3228. peace. 
Then is a time of Joy and Happiness, 
When Peace puts forth her Olive every-where. 

3229. anxiety consumes life. 
§ The incessant care and labour of the Mind 
Wears out the mure* that should confine it in. 

* Wall. 



Hairy IV.] APHORISMS. 353 

3230. music. 

J3. No charm like Music to aweary Spirit. 

3231. joy ; rarely fatal. 

Those who are sick 
With Joy, most part recover without Physic. 

3232. kings. 

Heads that wear Crowns 
Sleep npt so sound, nor half so deeply sweet, 
As those whose brow with homely biggin bound 
Snores out the watch of Night. 

3233. right s — transm issibh. 

® To others leave Rights which are left to thee. 

3234. youth — vainly ambitious. 

X Foolish Youth 
Oft seeks the Greatness that will overwhelm it. 

3235. TYRANNY— WAR. 

2. Tyranny nurses War, 
Lest rest and lying still make subjects look 
Too near into it's state. 

3236. court. 

A Friend in the Court is better than a Penny 
in the Purse*. 

3237. honesty — defends itself simply fy boldly. 
An honest Man is able to speak for himself 

when a Knave is not. 

3238. ASSIMILATION. 

® Minds that much and intimately associate 
with each-other fall into a semblable coherence. 

3239- 

It is certain that either wise bearing or igno- 
rant carriage is caught, as men 'take diseases, cne 

* The Proverb speaks cautiously, yet still perhaps some? 
what largely, of a questionable Value. 
Hh3 



3o4 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry IV. 

of another : therefore let men take heed of their 
Company. 

3240. honour ^fortitude — will never 

submit basely. 
X$ If Truth and upright Innocence prevail not, 
Honor and Fortitude will never beg 
A ragged and forestall'd Remission. 

3241. AFFECTION — SYMPATHY. 

© Those Hearts whom Love unites will bear our 

3242. judge. [Cares. 

2. A true Judge dares do Justice on a Prince. 
.3243. king. 

3. True Kings love Justice, though against thern- 

3244. Judge. [selves. 
X$ A Magistrate must use the Sword of Justice 
With a bold, just, calm, and impartial Spirit. 

3245. PARLIAMENT. 

2§. In forming the high Court of Parliament, 

Limbs* should be chosen of such noble Counsel, 

That War or Peace, and all events may be 

As things acquainted and familiar, 

And the great body of the State may go 

In equal rank with the best govern' d Natioq, 

3246. AGE. 

An old Man can do somewhat f. 

3247. p owe u unjust. 

O that Might should overcome Right! 

3248. PATIENCE. 

Of Sufferance comes ease J. 

* I have observed no earlier allusion to the term Members 
of Parliament. 

f Non omnia longior iEtas 
Quae fugiamus habet : seris venit usus ab Annis. OV. 

i Durum, sed levius sit Patientia 
Quicquid corrigere est Nefas. HOR. 



Hairy IV.} APHORISMS. 355 

3249. AFFECTION. 

© The earnestness which will not stay for 
shew or ceremony proves the zeal of Affection. 

3250. 

jf. Friendship and Love put all other interests 
and wishes in oblivion. 

3251. JESTS. 

3. Answer not just Reproof with fool-born Jests. 

3252. REFORMATION. 

4. These who would turn away their former selves 
Must quit bac Cornpanv, which made them such. 

3253. 
5f. The worst should have a competence allowed, 
That want of means enforce them not to Evil; 
And as His found they do reform themselves, 
According to their strength and qualities> 
May hope Advancement. 

32.54. 
Laws banish not to afflict, but to reform. 
Till a vicious Conversation may return 
More wise and modest to the World it wror.g'd. 

3255. DEBTORS. 
Most Debtors promise infinitely. 

3256\ CONSCIENCE. 

A good Conscience will make every possible 

$257. theatre. [Satisfaction. 

© That the Gentlemen should disagree with 
the Gentlewomen, is not likely ever to happen ai; 
a 1 heatre. 

3 2 53. GEXirs —poetic . 

A Muse of Fire ascends 
The brightest Heayea of Inveiitioa, 



35$ SHAKESPERIAN [Henry V. 

HENRY V. 

3259. war. 

X$ At the heel g of War, 
Leash t in like Hounds, dire Famine, Sword, and 
Crouch for Employment. [Fire 

326*0, IMAGINATION. 
%§. Imagination leaps o'er Time and Space, 
Turning the Accomplishments of many Years 
Into an Hour-glass. 

3261. theatre — motto for one* 

Hear gently; mildly judge. 

3262. reformation — delay d. 

ffj When Reformation comes, it comes a F!ood t 
With a strong heady current, scouring Faults. 

3263. practice— THEORY, 

In some the habit and practic part of Life 
Becomes the Mistress of their Theory. 

3264. good ; — latently intermixt with evil. 
The Strawberry grows underneath the Nettle; 
And sometimes wholesome Berries ripen best 
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. 

3265. CAUSES— EFFECTS. 

Seeing the Effect, we must admit the Mearis 
How things are perfected *. 

3266. justice — the Crime of perverting it. 
M§ 'Tis ill to fashion wrest and bow our Reading* 
And basely charge our understanding Soul 

* There is at the Bar a well-known Pun on this great 
philosophical Axiom : which has been ludicrously employed 

as the Motto of a Carriage by an eminent Barrister « 

Causes produce Effects, — " Nil fieri sine Causa pos$e 
y.demus/' is said even by LUCRETIUS, 



Henry F.] APHORISMS. 357 

With opening Titles miscreate, whose Right 
Suits not, in native colours, with the Truth. 

3267 '. war — the Guilt of unnecessary. 
2§. Statesmen, take heed how you impawn a State, 
How you awake the sleeping Sword of War ; 
In the most awful Name of God, take heed. 
For never did two Nations thus contend 
Without much fall of blood ; whose guiltless drops 
Are every one a woe, a sore complaint, [Sword 
^Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the 
That makes such W aste in brief Mortality. 

3268. statesmen — worldly. [justly, 
3f. Statesmen are wont, who bear the Name un- 
To fine their Title with some shew of truth, 
When in pure truth it is corrupt and naught. 

3 2 69 . governmex t — if s perfect Idea . 

§ While that the armed Hand doth fight abroad, 
The advised Head should guard the State at home : 
For Government, tho' high, and low, and lower, 
Put into Parts, doth keep in one Consent*, 
Congruing in a full and natural Close, 
Like Music. 

* My Uncle CAPELL used to quote this noble Fragment 
of CICERO, preserved by AUGUSTINE :— -« Ut mfidibu* 
ac ribiis, atque cantu ipso zcvocibus CoxcENrusjest quidam 
tenendus ex distinctis sonis, quern immutatum aures eruditas 
ferre non possunt, utque Concentus ex dissimillimarum vocum 
Moderatione concors tamen efficitur &; congmens ; sic ex sum- 
?nis & infimis & mediis interjectis ordinibus, ut jo«;V,modcrata 
ratione Civitas, consensu dissimillimorum, conJnit : Et quae • 
Harmonia a Muslcis dicitur in Cantu, eaest in Civitate Con- 
cordla ; arctissimum atque ofitimum omni in Republica Vincu- 
lum Incolumitatis ; quae sine Justitia nullo pacto esse potest." 
This Passage is here translated: if any ever was. And I 
know not, it being a Fragment, that there was any Transla* 
tion of it in the time of. SHAKESPEARE. 



353 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry V. 

3270. government — illustrated by the Polity 
Heaven divides [of Bees. 

"The State of Man in divers Functions, 
Setting endeavour in continual Motion*, 
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, 
Obedience f ; — so work the honied Bees ; 
Creatures, that by a Rule of Nature teach 
The Art of Order to a peopled Kingdom ;-— 
They have a King, and Officers of sort : 
Where some, like Magistrates, correct at home ; 
Others, like Merchants, venture trade abroad; 
Others, like Soldiers, armed in their stings, 
Make boot upon the Summer's velvet bud, 
Which pillage they with merry march bring home 
To the tent-royal of their Emperor, 
Who, busied in his Majesty, surveys 
The singing Mason building roofs of gold, 
The civil Citizens kneading up the honey, 
The poor mechanic Porters crouding in 
Their heavy burthens at his narrow gate ; 
The sadrey'd Justice, with his surly hum, 
Delivering o'er to N Executors pale 
The lazy Drone J. 

3271. politics the Art of 'harmonizing, 
f Under wise Conduct and mature Design 
It is well possible that many things 
Having full reference to one Consent, 
May act accordantly ; though else contrarious :■ 

* Pater ipse colendi 
paud facilem esse viam voluit ; — primusque per Artern 
Movit agros, curis acuens mortalia Corda 
Kec torpere gravi passus sua Regna veterno. VIRG* 

f Quadrasyliable, 

} Ignayum fucps pecus. VIRG* 



Henry V.] APHORISMS. 359 

As many Arrows loosed several ways, 
Fly to one Mark; 

As many several Ways meet in one Town ; 
As many fresh Streams run in one-self Sea j 
As many Lines close in the Dial's Centre; 
So may a thousand Actions once a foot 
End in one purpose, and be all well born 
Without defeat. 

3272. en gl an v— invincible at home if she use 

her proper Means. 
If England with her proper Power at home 
Cannot defend her own Door from the Dog, 
Let us be worried ; and our Nation lose 
The Name of hardihood and policy*. 

3273. HISTORY. 

tf History should speak freely of Men's Acts, 
And with full Mouth. 

3274. KINGS. 

© Passion in Kings to Reason should be subject, 
Or they are Tyrants. 
3275. 

'Tis but too common 
That Men are merriest when they are from home* 

3276. OMNIPOTENCE. 

All things lie 
Within the Will of God. 

3277. CELERITY. 

>£ Omit no happy hour 
That may give furtherance to an Expedition* 

3278. piety. [business, 
§ Thoughts heavenward should run before our 

* See CARTWRIGHT* ENGLAND^ ifeGIS. 



3f>0 SHAKESPERIAN [Henri/ V. 

3279* ENGLAND. 

England 
In little Body has a mighty Heart*. 

32S0. WORDS DEEDS. 

51 Those who say little, when Time serves do most. 

3281. LIFE DEATH. 

Live as long as you may w r ell and honorably ; 
and when you can live no longer die contentedly. 

3282. PATIENCE. 

*[ Though Patience be a tir'd Mare she will 
plod — there must be Conclusions. 

3283. HEART. 

© There is no killing like that which kills the 
Heart. 

3284. friends and countrymen- 

quarrels. 
§ Why should Friends and Countrymen keep 
Knives to cut one another's Throats ? 

3285. SER VICE — E N C U R A GEMENT. 

§ Then Service doth with steeled Sinews toil, 
When Labour can refresh itself with Hope. 

3386. CRUELTY MERCY. 

© 111 should the Cruel dare to talk of Mercy. 

3287. TREASON— MURTHER. 

$-h Treason and Murther ever keep together, 
As two Yoke-devils sworn to each-other's purpose. 

3288. EYE EAR, JUDGEMENT. 

K Work thou not by the Eye without the Ear ; 
And but with purged Judgement trust to neither. 

328Q. GUILT DEATH. 

2. Guilt is to be regretted more than Deathf. 

* Totosque infusa per artus 
Major in exiguo regnabat corpore Virtus. STAT, 

f Sumnauru crede nefas animaoi prse ferre pudori. JUV, 



Hennj V.] APHORISMS. 36l 

3290. god-— his Justice and his -Omnipotence. 

3. God's Justice will disclose a wicked Purpose. 

3291. appearances-: d&xtifyU 

4. Trust not Appearances and outward Shews: 
For some have acted like the elder Brutus , 
Covering Discretion with a Coat of Folly ; 

As Gardeners do with ordure hide those Roots 
Which shall first spring and be most delicate*. 

3292. w a 11 — defensive. 

§ In Cases of Defence 'tis best to weigh 
The Enemy more mighty than he seems : 
So the proportions of Defence are fill'd ; 
Which of a weak and niggardly projection, 
Doth like a Miser spoil his coat with scanting 
A little cloth. 

3293. INVASION. 

7 Tis ever best to think the Invader strong: 
And therefore look we strongly arm to meet him. 

3294. COURAGE— COWARDICE. 

Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward Dogs 
Most spend their mouths when what they seem 
R.uns far before them. [to threaten 

3295. SELF-LOVE — SELF -NEGLECT. 

Self-love is not so vile a sin 
As Self-neglecting f. 

* What justness, beauty, and dignity in a base Comparison. 
It is recorded of the Expeller. of the Tarquim- that he pre- 
sented emblematically, at Delfihos^ a solid rod of Gold enclosed 
in a rough wooden Staff. 

f This would be true if Self-love did not lead into Self- 
neglect. — False Estimation, as Vanity, or over Estimation, as 
Pride, lead to Neglect of the Virtues and most valuable At- 
tainments — which is Self'ifi the highest Sense. Self-respect, 
V * Am«ur de soi^ is admirably distinguish^ by ROUSSEAU 
from V 'Amour firofite^ the injurious and narrow Love 01 Self.. 
1 i 



&ft SllAKESPEftlAN [Henry V. 

3 2-g6. G L R Y —adxen fit? on s. 
5F We must divest ourselves, and lay apart 
All borrowed Glories. 

3297. claims— obsolete. 

G Too 6ft the ambitious and rapacious make 
Many -most aukward and sinister Claims 
Pickt from the worm-holes of lottg-vanisht Days, 
And from the Dust of old Oblivion rak't. 

3298. DELIBERATION. 

J A Night is but small breath and little pause 
To answer matters of high Consequence. 

3299- memorials of worth — traditionary. 

K§ Mock not at antient traditionary Customs, 
began on an honorable Respect, and continued 
as a memorable Trophy of predeceas'd Valour. 

3300. BOASTING. 

2fv Allow not yourself in Words what you dare 
not, or ought not, to avouch in Deeds, 

3301. war — the Desolation produced by it. 
3§. In War, the Vine, the chearer of the Heart, 
XJnpruned, dies: — the Hedges, even-pleacht, 
Like Prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, 

Put forth disorder^ Twigs ; on fallow leas 
The Darnel, Hemlock, and rank Fumatory, 
Doth wildly root; while that the coulter rusts*, 
Which should deracinate such savagry. 
The even Mead, that erst brought sweetly forth 
The freckled Cowslip, Burnet, and green Clover, 
.Wanting the Scythe, all uncorrected, rank, 
Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems 
But hateful Docks, rough Thistles, Kecksies, Burs, 

* Uncus aratri 
Horfidus incultis putrescit vcmer in arvis. 0Y» 



Hmry V.] APHORISMS. 3ff3 

Losing both beauty and utility; 
All former husbandry is laid in heaps, 
Corrupting in it's own fertility: ! 
And as the Vineyards, Fallows, Meads, ■& Hedges* 
Defective in their nature, grow to Wildness, 
E'en so Men's Houses, & theirselves, & Children, 
Have lost, or do not learn, for want of time, 
The Sciences that should become a Country ; 
But grow like Savages, — as Soldiers will 
That nothing do but meditate on blood,— 
To swearing and stern looks, difms'd attire, 
And every thing that seems unnatural. 

3302. PEACE. 
Peace is the Nurse of Arts, Plenty, and joyful 

3303/ [Births/ 

In Peace, there's nothing so becomes a Man 
As modest stillness and humility, 

3304. BLUSTER. 

A killing Tongue and a quiet Sword. 

3305. LICENTIOUSNESS. 

§ What rein can hold licentious Wickedness, 
When down the hill rushing in fierce career. 

3306. WORLD — KNOWLEDGE of the. 

4f. Learn to know the Slanders of the Age, false 
Pretenders, or you may be marvellously mistaken. 

3307. conquest — Means contrasted. 

t When Lenity and Cruelty play for a Kingdom, 
the gentlest Gamester is the soonest Winner: and 
at least the only honorable*. 

* Henry V. did not act, however, on this excellent Maxim. 
See SOUTKEY's JOAN of ARC, and the Notes to that 
noble Poem. 

* ii2 



364 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry V. 

3308. war — cox dv ct superior to force. 
J Advantage is a better Leader in War than Rash- 

3309* malice. [ness. 

f 111 /.Will never said Well, 

3310. tl at teky— unintentional. 

In Friendship and Love there is unintentional 

3311. justice. [Flattery. 
Give the Devil his Due. 

3312. folly ca reless of the Misch ief it does* 
A Fool's Bolt is soon shot. 

3313. imitation — Dramatic; it's Use. 
Observe true things by what their Mockeries be* 

3314. 
'Tis good for Men to love their present Pain 
Upon Example : — thus the Spirit is eas'd ; 
And when the Mind is quicken'd, out of doubt, 
The Organs, though defunct and dead before, 
Break off their drowsy Grave and newly move 
With casted slough and fresh legerity. 

3315. war— should be something more than un- 

bridled licentiousness. 
§ A true General will observe. the Ceremonies 
of War : the Cares and the Forms and the So- 
briety and the Modesty of it. 

3316. enemy — not to be imitated in faults. 
If one party be an Ass and a Fool and a prating 

Coxcomb, is it fit that the other therefore should 
be an Ass and a Fool and a prating Coxcomb ? 

* 'Qg c 5v cro(pov Q^Xev^oc^ocg ttqXXoov %^ocg 

N«ca. eur. 

f This Translation of VIRGIL's — 

?' Positi9 novus ex*aviis nitidusque juventa" 
M Volvitur," 
I think has not yet been equalled. 



Henry V.I APHORISMS. 3fo 

3317. WORTH— ft<tf FASHION. 

5. Never be Sense, Care, Valour, undervalued, 
Though they appear a little out of Fashion. 

3318. life — it's Uncertainty. 

6§. How many see the Beginning of a Day who 
never see the End of it I 

3319. KINGS. 

7§. The King is but a Man : the Violet smells 
to him as to another : the Element shews to him 
as to another; all his Senses have but human 
Conditions ; his Ceremonies laid by he appears 
but a Man ; and though his Affections are higher 
mounted than our's, yet when they stoop they 
stoop with the same wing*. 

3320. 

When the Course of War is not just, the King 
or Governor that makes it has a heavy reckoning 
to make. 

3321. GOD— his OMNIPOTENCE. 

§ However Wickedness outstrips Men, it has 
no Wings to fly from God. 

3322. w a R — his Instrument of Correction. 

© War is an Instrument of Vengeance in the 
hand of Heaven against Human Wickedness, of 
which it is the effect and the punishment. 

3323. safety and danger. 

Many, where they fear Death, have borne Life 
away ; and have perisht where they lookt for 
Safety f. 

* Smite homo sit: neque enim Ratio neque Imperium 
tollit Affectus. 

+ Matth. x. 39. xvi. 25. 

X i 3 



366 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry V. 

3324. SOLDIER. 

Every Subject's Duty is the King's ; but every 
Subject's Soul is his own. Therefore should 
every Soldier do in the Wars as a sick Man in his 
Bed, wash every Moth out of his Conscience. — 
And dying so, Death , is to him advantage; or 
not dying, the time was blessedly lost in which 
such preparation was gain'd. 

3325. royalty — private life. 

What infinite Heart's-ease do Kings neglect 
That private Men enjoy ? 

3325. VALOUR — BENEVOLENCE. 

CD In hearts of Valour full, Kindness inhabits : 
Princely are both. 

332/. EXTERNALS. 

2. Outward things dwell not in great Men's desire, 

3328. mind. 
Up All things seem ready when the Mind is so. 

33-29- contingencies. 
The Man that once did sell the Lion's skin 
While the Beast Jiv'd, was kill'd in hunting him. 

3330. BOASTING, 

The empty Vessel makes the greatest Sound. 

3331. dishonor— worse than death. 

Better short Life than Life with Shame pro- 

3332. analogy— -forcd. [long'd. 
The Love of Analogy, just and natural is it, 

leads often to strange Absurdities*. 

3333. offence — none where no ill Intention, f 
All Offences come from the Heart f. 

* Witness good Fluellins (the Welch Pronunciation of 
L,Je<w?ilyn ) Analogies between Macedon and Monmouth. 
f Actus non facit reum nisi Mens sit rea. 

L. M. and Matth. xv. 19, 



Henri/ V.) APHORISMS. 36T 

3334. god — all Praise his. 

Take not that Praise from God 
Which is his only. 

3335. woman— her Influence to promote re- 

conciliation. 
X$ A Woman's Voice has often done much Good, 
When Articles too nicely urg'd were stood on. 

3336. oaths. 

% Never use Oaths unurg'd; nor ever break 
them for urging. 

3337. lover. 

3t. A Alan may not be the worse Lover who 
never looks in his glass for love of any thing he 
sees there. 

3338. 
4. Take a Fellow of plain and uncom'd Constancy, 

3339. excellence internal — the sole durable. 
A Speaker is, perhaps, but a Prater ; a Rhime 

but a Ballad. A good Leg will fall ; a straight 
Back will stoop ; a black Beard will turn white ; 
a curl'd Pate will grow bald ; a fair Face will 
wither; a full Eye will wax hollow: but a good 
Heart is the Sun and Moon: or rather the Sun 
but not the Moon; for it shines brightly and 
never changes, but keeps it's course truly. 

3340. kisg-s. 

Nice Customs curtesy to great Kings. 

3341. 
They are the Makers of Manners. 

* Forma bomim fragile est, nee quod perduret^'n anno3; 
Fit minor & spatio carpkur ipsa suo. OVID. 
Effingas animum qui duret, & adstrue Forms : . 
Bolus ab extreme pennanet iiie rogo. ID. leviter imraut. 



368 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VI. 

3342. 

t The liberty that follows their place, if it stop 
the mouth of Find-faults whilst they live, gene- 
rally after their Death Censure avenges itself for 
it's Silence. 

3343. FLATTERY. 

© A great Mind has neither the Yoice nor the 
Heart of Flattery. 

3344. marriages— when Good—to beascrib-d 

to Heaven. 
God the best Maker is of Marriages. 

3345. a 

'Tis happy 
When Man and Wife, being two, are one in Love. 

3346. actions — Great. 

Deeds that are truly great exceed all Speech*. 

HENRY VI. 

3347. AMBITION. 

Giory is like a Circle in the Water, 
That never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought 

3348. sun. to 
The Sun with one Eye vieweth all the World. 

3349. war — not to be xvagd by unjust Means. 

Xt He wrongs his Fame 
Who joins with disallow- d and wicked Aids, 
Despairing of his own Arm's Fortitude. . 

* Ovh "ig Xoycc s(pix£<r$oa Svvccij'ccv, 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS, 36*9 

3350. god. 
God is our Fortress. 

3351. name— it's Power. 

© The Name of a great Chief is as an Host, 

3352. GUESTS. 

Unbidden Guests 
Are often welcomest when they are gone, 

3353. rumor. 

Report is fabulous and false. ■*- 

3354. appearances— be not prejudic* d by them. 
In many, Observation will discover [looks. 

Much more than might be gather' d from their 
Slight not the unknown ; lest you repent, omitting 
With reverence, as you ought, to entertain them*, 

3355. 
The Mind is oft misconstrued, judging it 
By the outward Composition of the Body. 

3356. soldier-— -hardy and not fastidious. 
A Soldier's Stomach always serves him well. 

3357. truth — should create courage. 

§ Dares no Man answer in the Cause of Truth, 

3358. law — by whom wrested. 

>£ Who can not frame their Will unto the Law, 
Are apt to frame the Law unto their Will. 

3359. judgments — are of different range. 
Between two Hawks which flies the higher pitch, 
Between two Dogs which hath the deeper mouth, 
Between two Blades which bears the better temper, 
Between two Horses which doth bear him best, ■ 
Between two Girls which has the merrier eye, 
Many may have some shallow spirit of Judgment, 
Who elsewhere are not wiser than a Daw. 

♦ Hebr. xiii. %. 



370 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry PI. 

3360. truth — opposite Claiman's. 

© On contrary sides men claim the Truth. 

3361. by whom to.be maintain d. 

Who is no Coward and no Flatterer, 
Let him maintain the party of the Truth. 

S362. opinion — Constancy in maintaining it. 
Those who for resolute Opinion bleed, 
Opinion is the Surgeon of their hurt. 

3363. insult dangerous. 

X An Insult when we think it is forgotten, 

Is written in the book of Memory, 

E'en in the Heart, to scourge our apprehension; 

3364. death— the Friend of the unhappy. 
Just Death, the Umpire of Men's Miseries, 
Dismisses Sufferers with sweet Enlargement* 

3365. silence — politic. 

Q Silence in troublous times is politic. 

3366. evil — koto to be improved. 

X The Wise make Ills the Advantage of their 
3357- oratory. [Good. 

G Then most is seen the genuine Orator, 
Answering with sudden and ex temporal Speech 
Whate'er the Adversary can object. 

3368. clergy — should be reverend beyond the 

mere Title. 

2. It is Dishonor to be reverend only 
Touching the Spiritual Function, not the Life: 
Religious they should be, and pious Men, 
And know the Duties that belong to such. 

3369. DOCTRINE PRACTICE. 

3. We should maintain in Practice what we teach. 

3370. HAND— HEART. [hollow. 

4. 'Tis ill when Hands join and the Heart is 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS. _ 371 

3371. KINGS. 

K§ The presence of good Kings engenders love 
Among their Subjects and their loyal Friends, 
As it disanimates their Enemies. 

3372. counsel or advice — Good. 

1T©t Wise friendly Counsel cuts off many Foes 
In the best way;— by healing, not destroying, 
And changing them to Friends. 

3 3 7 3 . h a t r e d — dissembled is the worst. 
>£ Dissension under Ashes of feign'd Love*, 
Breaks out at last in most pernicious Flame : 

3374?. discord. 
Dire fruits doth base and envious Discord 

3375. insult — to old age. [breed. 
It ill becomes to taunt valiant old Age, 

And twit with Cowardice a Man half dead. 

3376. FORTITUDE. 

5£t When of true Fortitude possesst, there lives 
Undaunted Spirit in a dying Breath. 

3377. KINGS—DEATH. 

§ Kings and the mightiest Potentates must die : 
Thus ends all human Pomp, all human Misery. 

3378. confidence— not tightly to be ••withdrawn* 
2f. Where Confidence has once been justly plac'd ? 
One sudden fail should never breed Distrust. 

3379. mutiny. 

To him who draws against his Officer, 
The Law of Arms appointeth present Death, 

3380. GARTER KNIGHTS of the. 

When first the splendid Order was ordain'd/ 
Knights of the Garter were of noble Birth, 

* Ignes 
Suppositi Cineri doloao* HOR, 



372 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VI. 

Valiant" and virtuous, full of haughty Courage, 
Such as were grown to credit by the Wars ; 
Not fearing Death, nor shrinking for Distress, 
But always resolute in most extremes : 
lie, then, that is not furnisht in this sort 
Doth but usurp the sacred Name of Knight; 
Profaning this most honorable Order. 

33SI. TREACHERY. 

§ Shame, in Alliance, Amity, and Oaths, 
There should be found such false dissembling 

3382. factions— irritable. fGuile. 
What madness rules in brain-sick Men, 

When, for a Cause most slight and frivolous, 
Such factious Emulations shall arise ! [priz'd* 

3383. rights — dearly bought should be dearly 
Respect your Rights: — see that you not forego 
That for a trifle which was bought with blood. 

3384. peace and v ower — Squabbles for them* 

No simple Man that sees 
This jarring Discord of Nobility, 
This shouldering of each-other in the Court, 
This factious bandying of their favorites, 
But that he does presage some ill Event. 

3385. power— ill lodgd, or enviously divided*, 
? Tis much when Sceptres are in Children's hands: 
But more when Envy breeds unkind Division; 
Then comes the Ruin; there begins Confusion. 

3380. parties. 
X$ While Parties factious!}' each-other cross, 
Lives, Honours, Lands, and all, hurry to Loss. 

3387. parties. 
§ Let not your private Discord ke^p asunder 
The levied Succours of a Public Aid. 



Henry VL] APHORISMS. 373 

3388, TYRANNY. 

§ Tyrants, reflect, when Patriots you destroy, 
Their Fame lives in the World, their Shame in you. 

33S9« honor of families — to be cherisht. 
§ Dishonor not an honorable Name. 

3390. honor; to bepreferrd to life. 

Out with that vantage bought with such a Shame, 
To save a paltry Life and slay bright Fame. 

3391. insults on the dead; cowardly. 

That which they have fled 
During it's Life, base Men will wrong when dead ** 

3392. war between christians. 
It is both impious and unnatural 
That fierce immanity and bloody strife 
Should reign between Professors of one Faith. 

3393. spirit — PUBLIC. 

f Men should be well content with whatsoe'er 
Tends to God's Glory and the Public Weal. 

3394. FEAR. 

J Among base Passions Fear is widely baneful, 

3395. beauty — her Power. 

f Beauty's princely Majesty is such 
As dumbs the Tongue and makes the Senses 

3396. queen. [crouch. 
To be a Queen in bondage is more vile 

Than other Slaves in base servility. 

3397 soldier. 
Xt A Soldier ought not for himself to weep, 
Or to exclaim on Fortune's fickleness. 

* Ovtc oq-iov ii]oc[j.s)/Qicnv sir' uvl(>oc(rrJ 
8V%flccoccr$czi. hom. OD, 

Kk 



374 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VL 

3398. NATURE ART. 

Bethink thee, there are Virtues that surmount, 
And natural Graces that extinguish Art*, 

3399. LIFE — D EAT II. 

© Where Life is vile and wicked, Death is uke'it. 

3400. PvAFACiT y — perilous. 

X Rather keep 
That which you have, than, coveting for more- 
Be cast from possibility of all. 

340 1 . lo v E—ifs true Foundation. 

2. The Virtues graced with external Gifts ? 
Beget Love's settled Passion in the Heart. 

3402. m a r r 1 a g e — should not he for Money* 

3. In Marriage it is abjegf, base, and poor> 

To choose for Wealth, and not for perfect Love. 

3403. — nor on Compulsion. 

What is Wedlock forced, but an Hell, 
An Age of Discord and continual Strife : 
Whereas the contrary bringeth forth Bliss 3 
And is the pattern of celestial Peace. 

3404. delay. 

4. A weighty Business will not brook Delay, 

HENRY VI.-r-Part II. 

3405. selfishness — patriotism. 

5. While others labor for their own Preferment 
Behoves it us to labor for the Realm. 

Join we together for the Public Good 
In what we can. 

* SHAKESPEARE 'is a most signal Proof of this: far 
though his Art is great, his natural Powers are such as ts> 
eclipse it by their transcendant Lustre. In Rhythm, only 
MILTON has equalled SHAKESPEARE. 



Henry VL] APHORISMS. 375 

3406. HEAVEN. 

§ Heaven is the Treasury Gf endless Joy. 

3407. grief. [Powerso 
© Overwhelming Grief conquers the Soul's best 

3408 . wickedness — Self -punishable. 

K§ Numberless Mischiefs do the wicked work, 
Heaping Confusion on themselves thereby. 

3409. JUSTICE. 

2. Poise every Cause in the' equal Scale of Justice. 

3410. SORROW AGE. 

3§. Sorrow would Solace, and Age looks for Ease, 

3411. GOD. 

4. God is our hope, 
Our Stay, our Guide, the Light which leads our 
3412." patience. [feet*. 

© The surest help of Ills is Patience. 

3413. PUNISHMENT — LAW. 

S. No Punishment should exceed the Law's Com- 

3414. [mission. 

3. Those at the name of Death are most afraid, 
Who fondliest wish the World's Eternity, 

3415. 
K§ Just Shame will hang upon the richest Robes, 
And shew itself, attired how it ma}^ 

341 6. simulation — a vulgar Talent. 
Who can not steal a Shape that means Deceit ? 

3417. PHYSIOGNOMY. 

2§. A cloudy Brow betrays a stormy Hate. 

3418. 3. In the Face we see 
A Map of Honor, Truth, and Loyalty. 

* Ps. xxxvii. 39. xlvi. 1. cxix. 105. SHAKESPEARE, 
like PETRARCH and MILTON, was exceedingly conver- 
sant in SCRIPTURE. 

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376 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VL 

3419. words — passionate. 
4. Things are often spoke that are not meant. 

3420. 
© Words are not resolute but join'd with Deeds. 

3421. CELERITY. 

A Wound being green, there is great hope of help, 

3422. IRRITATION. 

A little Spark will prQve a raging Fire, 

If Wind and Fuel be brought to feed it with. 

3423. SHAME^-E¥VY, 

2. Shame be to those that wish to others Shame** 

3424. fear — unprincely. [Breasts. 

3. Pale Fear should have no place in Royal 

3425. ambition — rapidity of it's thoughts. 
Faster than Spring-time Showers comes thought 

on thought, 
And not a thought but thinks on Dignity. 

3426. INGRATITUDE. 

§ Ingratitude is but the starved Snake, 

Who, cherisbt in the Breast, will sting the Heart, 

3427. confidence — rash, to be avoided. 

§ Put not sharp Weapons in a. Madman's hands. 

342 8. jurisprudenc e— Criminal. 

§ Proceed no straighter 'gainst a Man accus'd, 
Than from due Evidence, of good Esteem, 
He be approv'd in practice culpable. 

3429. 
Far be it that any Malice should prevail 
That may condemn the faultless. 

3430. dissimulation. 

4. Hide not a poisonous Act with sugar' d Words, 

3431. prudence. 
Seek not a Scorpion's Nest. 

* Honi soit qui ma] y pense* 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS. 377 

3432. JUDGMENT. 

5. Judgment in Truth belongs to God alone. 

3433. death — violent; indications. 
See where the face is black and full of blood, 
His^ye-balls farther out than when alive, 
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : [gling; 
His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretcht with strug- 
His hands abroad displayed as one that grasp'd 
And tugg'd for Life, and was by strength subdued, 

3434^. natural 

The Body from which Life is timely parted, 
Is of an ashy semblance ; pale and bloodless, 
Being all descended to the laboring Heart, 
Which, in the conflict which it holds with Death, 
Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the Enemy, 
Which with the Heart there cools, and ne'er 
To blush and beautify the cheek again, [descends 

3435. suspicion. 

6. Suspicion thinks the least Signs probable. 

3436. strong. 

Who sees the Partridge in the Puttock's Nest, 
But may imagine how the Bird was kilTd, 
Although the Foe soar with unbloodied beak. 

3437. innocenc e — an impenetrable Shield. 
What stronger Breast-plate than a Heart un- 

3438. execrations. [tainted? 
§ Dire Execrations, — like the Sun 'gainst glass, 
Or like an overcharged Gun, — recoil, 

And turn their force on those who utter them. 

3439. habits — had ; not readily unlearnt. 
7. Bad Habits taught are bid in vain to cease. 

3440. absence. 

In presence Love imperfectly conceives 
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373 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VL 

The pang of Absence: howsoever dreaded,— 
Like an imagin'd Famine. 

3441. affection — more strong than the Love 

§4- Friends eondemn'd, [of Life. 
Embrace and take ten thousand tender leaves: 
More loth a hundred times to part than die* 

3442. SURGERY. 

§ Corrosives desperate must be applied 
To an else mortal Wound. 

3443. censure —avoid rash. 
Forbear to judge: for we are Sinners all. 

3444. DRONES. 

Drones suck not Eagles' blood ; but rob Bee-hiveS. 

3445. NOBILITY FEAR. 

True Nobility is exempt from Fear. 

3446. death of great Men. 
Great Men oft die by vile. 

344y. virtue — poor. 
f Virtue is not regarded in the Poor 
As constantly and highly as it ought. 

3448. labour. 
Labour in thy vocation. 

3449. HARDSHIP — FORTITUDE. 

§ A hard Hand is no ill sign of a brave Mind*, 

3450. beggary. 
Beggary is valiant t. 

3451. god. 

God, our Hope, will succour us. 

* Rusticorum mascula Militum 
Proles, Sabellis docta ligonibii* 
Versare glebas. HQR. 

f Vehemens Lupus, & sibi & hosti 
Iratus parit.er. £IX 



Henry VI.] APHORISMS. 379 

3452. INNOCENCE. ' 

${§ Those who trust justly in their Innocence, 
With Reason may be iirm and resolute. 

3453. CLIMATE. 

The Climate is not unfrequently very favorable 
Where the Inhabitants are bad*. 

3454. IGNORANCE. 
Ignorance is a Curse. 

3455. KNOWLEDGE. 

Knowledge is the Wings wherewith 
We fly to Heaven f. 

3456\ HEAT. 

Take heed lest by your heat you bum yourselves. 

3457. OLD AGE— EXPERIENCE. 

2§. Why are Men old yet want Experience ; 
Or why do they abuse it if they have it. 

3458. oaths bind not to Injustice. 

§ It is great Sin to keep a sinful Oath. 

Who can be bound by any solemn Vow 

To do a mnrtberous Deed, to rob a Man, 

To force a spotless Virgin's Chastity, 

To 'reave the Orphan of his patrimony, 

To wring the Widow from her customed Right, 

And have no other reason for this Wrong 

But that he was bound by a solemn Oath ! 

6459. GUILT— SOPHISTRY, 

A subtle Traitor needs no Sophister. 
* Bona Terra, mala Gens. 

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380 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VL 

3460. FORTITUDE. 

§ Fortitude as the Mountain Cedar shews, 
That keeps his leaves in spight of any Storm. 

3461. end crowns the Work. 
La Fin couronne les CEuvres. 

3462. FEAR— DISORDER. 

Fear frames Disorder: and Disorder wounds 
Where it should guard. 

3463. BEAUTY. 

§ Beauty the rage of Tyrants oft reclaims; 

346*4. omnipotence — irresistible and inevitable* 
Can we out-run the Heavens*? 

3465. anger. [Anger. 
© No Passion more betray'd by Looks than 

HENRY VI.— Part III. 

3466. PATIENCE. 

2. Patience is difficult in great Extremes. 

34(57. exultation — indecent. 
X§ 111 it beseems presumptuously to triumph 
Upon their Woes whom Fortune captivates. 

3468. heart — nothing supplies it in war or 

any-where. 
2§. All is in vain to hope to win the day, 
Where is no Heart to fight. [courageous. 

3469. storge or affection natural — — 
Unreasonable Creatures feed their Young: 
And though Man's face be fearful to their Eyes, 
Yet in protection of their tender ones,. 

"Who hath not seen them, even with their Wings, 
Which sometime they have us'd in fearful flight, 

* Psalm cxxxix* 



Henry VL] APHORISMS. 381 

Make War with him that climb' d *unto their Nest, 
Offering their own lives in their Young's Defence? 

3470. injustice — unprofitable. 

§ Things ill-acquir'd have ever bad Success*. 

3471. possessions — none truly valuable except 

virtue. 
S§. Leave to thy Son thy virtuous Deeds to herit: 
For all the rest is held at such a rate 
As brings a thousand-fold more care-taking 
Than in possession any jot of pleasure. 

3472-* SUCCESSION.. 
Who should succeed the Father but the Son i 

3473. RESIGNATION, 

To whom God will, there be the Victory ! 

3474. TIME — LIFE — DEATH. 

Minutes and Hours and Days, Weeks, Months, 

and Years, 
Past over to the End they were created, 
Bring us at last unto a quiet Grave. 

3475. war. 

While Lions war and battle for their Dens, 
Poor harmless Lambs abide their enmity f. 

3476. discontents — national. 

§ A ruin'd Country for it's woeful lot 
Misthanks it's King, nor will be satisfied. 

3477 . war successful, should produce peace, 

Good Fortune bids us pause 
And smooth the frowns of War with peaceful looks, 

3478. CLEMENCY. 

When a Battle's ended, ^ 

Or Friend or Foe alike be gently us'd. 

* Male parta male dilabuntur. 

f Delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi. HOR. 



$$» SHAKESPERIAN [Henri/ VI. 

3479. RESIGNATION, 

'Tis wisest calmly to embrace Adversities. 

34S0. 
2, Man never should behave as less than Man. 

348 1 kingdo m — the true is in the Heart. 
lie is most King who bears a Royal Mind ; 
Whose Crown is in his Heart : — Content j a Citowa 
Which seldom Kings enjoy*. 

3482. HABIT. 

Much Rain wears the ^Marble f. 

3483. LOVE— VIRTUE. 

§ That Love alone 
Which Virtue begs, Virtue will deign to grant* 

3484. dower. 

© Honesty is the best Dower. 

34-85. TREACHERY. 

X t Treachery smiles and murthers while it smiles ; 
And cries " Content" to that which grieves it's 
And wets it's face with artificial tears, [heart; 
And frames itself to all occasions, 
Virtue alone except ; the chief in all. 

3486. patience. 

With Patience calm a Storm. 

3487. sorrow -irritable. 
Impatience waiteth on true Sorrow. 

3488. love -*it 9 s trim Foundations. 

§ Thajihowe may well bean eternal Plant 

* Sapiens operis sic optimus omnis 
Est opifex ; sic Rex solus. HOR. 

f Quid asperias Saxo, quid mollius unda? 
Dura tamen molii Saxa teruntur Aqua. OV. 

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Henry VI.] APHORISMS. 383 

Whereof the Root Is fix'd in Virtue's ground, 
The Leaves and Fruit maintained with Beauty's 

3489. virtue — honor. [Sun* 
f Virtue's Desert is Honor. 

3490. FORGIVENESS. 

2$. Genuine Forgiveness quite forgets old Faults. 

34-91. kings. [Honor— 

§ Kings should do nought for wanton Will ; but 
And for the strength and safety of the Country. 

3 49 2 . England — h ei * Security internal. 
Of itself 
England is safe, if true within itself. 

3493. - insular. 

3-t- . Let us be backt with God and with the Seas P 
Which he hath given for fence impregnable, 
And with their help alone defend ourselves : 
In them, and in ourselves, our Safety lies. 

3494. FRIENDSHIP — ENMITY. 

4$. Tis. better Men be Foes than hollow Friends, 

3495. KING. 

5J. 'Tis not to be a King unless he know 
Both how to study for the People's Welfare? 
And how it fits to use Ambassadors, 
And how to be prepar'd 'gainst Enemies. 

3496. wisdom above fortune. 

6. Tho' Fortune's frown may overthrow the wisest. 
Their Mind exceeds the compass of her Wheel. 

3497. NECESSITY RESIGNATION. 

'Tis bootless to resist both Wind and Tide*. 

3498. HOPE. 

7§. Fair Hope oft hinders Life's Decay. 
* Quo Fata trahuot retrahuatque sequamur. VIR6-. 



384 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VI. 

3499. perfidy once found. 

Trust not to him that once hath broken faith, 

3500. MODERATION. 

8§. 'Tis best to conquer Fortune's spite 

By living low where Fortune can not hurt you. 

3501. peace — WAR. 

§ Happy are those for whom indulgent Heaven 
The Olive with the Laurel-crown hath blended, 
As destin'd to be blest in Peace and War. 

3502. DISSENSION. 

J Take heed 
That no Dissension hinder Government, 
From selfish Interest sprung. 

3503. OMENS. 

9§. Abodements ought not to affright us. 

3504. PREVENTION. 

A little Fire is quickly trodden out, 

Which being suffered, Rivers cannot quench** 

3505. courage — calm and quiet. 

ft 'Tis seldom found i 
The mutinous in Peace are bold in War. 

3506. CONTEST. 

The harder matcht the greater Victory. 

3507. justice. 

10 J. An upright zeal for Right ought to prevail 
More than the fondness of a Brother's Love. 

3508. WILLINGNESS. 

Willingness rids way. 

3509. prudence. [miichf. 
11 J. Give not more strength to that which has too 

' * Malum quo non aliud velocins ullum 
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo. VTRG. 

f Yet thus the Policy of Great Britain has employed 
itself for 20 years* 



Richard III.) APHORISMS. 385 

3510. VIGILANCE FORTITUDE. 

121. B e careful the Ship split not on a rock, 
Which Industry and Courage might have sav'd^ 

3511. NECESSITY. 

* That which cannot be avoided 

'Twere childish weakness to lament and fear. 

3512. child. - 

Men never spend their fury on a Child. 

3513. SYMPATHY. 

Love should reside in Men like one another. 

3514. improvement. 

fl" Count of thyself as bad till thou be best. 

3515. tyranny — never safe. 

f Tyrants who think 
That they have swept Suspicion from their seat, 
And made their footstool of Security, 
Err in the end. 

351 6. tyranny cruel and unfeelingly voluptuous. 

© 'Tis horrible whenTyraiits fresh from Murther 
Abuse the Time with Feasts and wanton Sport*. 

3517. hatred — apt to betray itself. 
$£§ 'Tisvery rare but that interior Hatred 
Will, in the outward Action, shew itself. 



RICHARD III. 

3518. justice — Divine. 

Most just is God, who rights the Innocent. 

3519. honor. 

2§ . Many new Stampsof Honor scarce are current, 

3520. elevation external. [them; 
They that stand high have many blasts to shake 
And if they fall they dash themselves to pieces*. 

* Tolluntur in altum, 
Ut lapsu graviore cadant. CL.AUD* £, 1 



386 SHAKESPERIAN [Richard 111. 

3521. curses. 

t Curses from Rancour impotently pass 
The lips of those that breathe them in the air* 

3522. BABBLING. 

Talkers are no good Doers. 

3523. DEATH — CONSCIENCE. 

© Those Acts avoid which in the hour of Death 
Give evidence against the trembling Soul. 

3524. TITLES. 

§ Too oft between a Title and low Name 
There's nothing differs but the outward Fame. 

3525. BREVITY. 

§ It's better to be brief than tedious. 

3526. CONSCIENCE. 

2. Some certain Dregs of Conscience remain 
in the most wicked. 

3527. peace. [Heaven, 
3. With greatest peace those Souls may part to 
Whose joy has been in making Peace on Earth. 

3528. HYPOCRISY. 

Ah, that Deceit should steal such gentle Shapes? 
And with a virtuous vizard hide deep Vice. 

35 29« lamentation — unavailing. 
None can ere cure their harms by wailing them*. 

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Richard III.] APHORISMS. 387 

3530. RECONCILIATION. 

§ The inflaming rancour of Men's high-swola 

Hearts, 
But lately splinted, knit, and join'd together, 
Must gently be preserved, cherisht, and heal'd. 

3531. 
§ A Compact yet but green should not be put 
To an apparent likelihood of breach. 

3532. KINGDOM. 

Woe to that Land that's govern'd by a Child. 

3533. curiosity and garrulity. 
Pitchers have ears. 

3534. youth— generous and unsuspecting. 

Kt The untainted Virtue of fresh innocent Youth 
Hath not yet div'd into the World's Deceit : 
Nor more can it distinguish of a Man 
Than by the outward shew ; which oftentime 
Bears very ill accordance with the Heart. 

3535. LIFE — WEATHER PROGNOSTICS, 

Short Summers lightly have a forward Spring, 

3536. PREMATURITY. 

Idle Weeds are fast in growth*, 

3537- DREAMS. 

2. Trust not the Mockery of unquiet Slumbers; 

3538. fear — -provokes Attacks. 

To fly the Boar before the Boar pursues us, 

Were to incense the Boar to follow us, 

And make attack where he did mean no chace, 

3539. CELERITY. 

Take all the swift advantage of the hours. 

* In the Greek Sense — otoyoq — pernicious. 

MATTH. xii. 36. and WAKEFIELD iu loc. 
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333 SHAKESPERIAN [Richard III, 

3540. delay dangerous. 

Be not ta'en tardy by unwise Delay. 

3541. tyrants hate observers. 

3$. None are for Tyrants 
That look into them with considerate Eyes. 

3542. sin. 

Sin will pluck on Sin. 

3543. POVERTY — DELAY. 

Delay leads impotent and snail-fac'd Beggary. 

3544. IMPRUDENCE — R E P EN T A N CE. 

Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, 
Which after hours give leisure, to repent. 

3545. GRANDMOTHER. 

A Grandam's Name is little less in Love 
Than is the doting Title of a Mother ; 
They are as Children*, but one step below. 

354:6. MARRIAGE. 

4$. Sweet are the silent Loves of Marriage-joys f. 
3547. evil corrupts not only the present but the 
future. 
5§. By Times ill us'd o'erpast, the Time to come, 
Ere us'd, becomes Abuse. 

354S. CAPTIOUSNESS. 

Be not peevish found in great Designs, 

3549. PROLIXITY. 

§ What need to run a Story miles about 

When thou may'st teil thy Tale the nearest way ? 

3550. INJUSTICE, 

§ Wrong will have Wrong, and Blame the due of 

3551. consjcience, [[Blame. 
Conscience is a thousand Swords. 

* So the Roman Law. 

f There is a Passage in Wollaston's Religion of Nature 
very like this. 



Henry Fill.] APHORISMS, 389 

3552. tyranny. [Fear, 
6§. The Friends of Tyrants are but Friends from 
And in their dearest need will fly from them, 

3553. war — discipline, 

G In War, behoves to lack no Discipline* 

3554. CENTINELS. 

Use careful Watch ; chuse trusty Centinels, 

3555. courage — SUCCESS. 
Be valiant, and speed well, 



HENRY VIII. 

3556. ORDER. 

X Order gives all things view. 

3557. self. 

Be to yourself 
As you would to your Friend. 

3558. TEMPERANCE. 

J- Pray God for Temperance, 

3559. taxation. 

© Take heed of such Exactions by the which 
The Back is Sacrifice to the Loud. 

35oO. detraction. 
K§ To be traduc'd by ignorant Tongues which 
The faculties or person, yet will be f know not 
The Chronicles of his doings, is too common : 
? Tis the rough Brake that Virtue must go through. 

356' I. causes — final. 
Heaven has an End in all. 

3562. MUSIC 

© When the dejected Soul sinks under Troubles, 
Music disperses them. 

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390 SHAKESPERIAN [Henry VIII. 

3563. virtue. 

K Firm tranquil Virtue cares not if her Actions 
Were tried by everyTongue, every Eye saw them, — • 
Envy and base Opinion set against them, — 
She bears herself so even. 

3564. TRUTH. 

Truth loves open Dealing; 

3565. PRIDE. 

2§. When does Pride acknowledge 
The Stamp of Nobleness in any Person 
Out of herself. 

3566. time — Distribution of it. 

3§. Men should 
For Holy Offices have a Time ; a Time 
To think upon the part of business*, 
Which privately, or for the State they bear; 
And Nature does of her frail Sons require 
Her times of Preservation. 

3567. WORDS— -DEEDS. 

4. Saying and doing well should yoke together. 

3568. envy. 

© All Goodness 
Is Poison to a base and envious Heart. 

3569. LAW. 

§ When Faults lie open to the Law, let that, 
Not Enmity, correct them. 

3570. AFFLICTION. 

K Trials are Blessings: if they teach farewell 
To Hope in Courts, and in Heaven bid it dwell* 

* Trisyllable* 



Coriolanus.] APHORISMS, 3$>1 

CORIOLANUS. 

3571. pride. 

© Where the Gratification of Pride 13 the 
Motive, it destroys the Merit of otherwise Good 
Actions. 

3572. CEXS0RI0US3TESS. 

Speak not maliciously. 

3573. DESPAIR 

2. Nothing they fear who are undone already, 

3574. slander — political. 

§ Beware you slander not 
The helms of the State : nor curse as Enemies 
Who care for you as Fathers*. 

3575. poor— laws concerning them. 

f It is a bad symptom in a State when severe 
Statutes are multiplied to chain up and restrain 
the Poor. 

3576. corruption— popular. 

>£§ In a corrupted State who deserves Greatness 
Deserves their Hate: And their Affections are 
A sick Man's appetite, who desires most that 
Which would increase his Evil. He that depends 
Upon their conduct swims with fins of lead, 
And hews down oaks with rushes, 
With every minute do they change their mind : 
And call him noble that was now their hate; 
Him vile that was their Garland. 

3577. hunger. 
Hunger breaks Stone Walls. 

* Political Slanders are very rare. They can never be fre* 
quent but in the last stage of Corruption. The Good are not 
slander'd till Discrimination and Sense of Honor have bee» 
lost by habitual Flattery of the Bad* 



392 SHAKESPEklAN [Coriolanus. 

3578. bogs. 
Dogs must eat, 

3579. RICH. 

§ Heaven sends not Corn for the Rich only. 

3580. PRIDE. 

A proud Nature, 
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow 
Which he treads on at noon. 

3581. death. [Country, 
§ Better that eleven Sons die nobly for their 
Than that one voluptuously surfeit out of Action. 

3582. valour. 

§ True Valour is not foolish in it's Stand, 
Nor cowardly in Retreat. 

3583. WILLINGNESS. 

© Those aid an Action best who are most willing. 

3584. COUNTRY. 

t He has deserved the Name of Citizen 

To whom his Country's dearer than himself. 

3585. FLATTERY. 

§ When Drums and Trumpets 
In the field prove Flatterers, Courts and civil 
Must be all false- fac'd soothing. [Life 

3586. KNOWLEDGE. 

1[$ Men must know much to know others, or 
themselves, or any thing, rightly. 

3587. vjrtue. 

>£ Virtue rewards 
Her Deeds with doing of them*. 

3588. INGRATITUDE. 

Ingratitude is monstrous. 

* Ipsaquidem Virtue sibi met pulcherrima Merces* 



I Coriolanus.] APHORISMS. 2Q3 

3589. MAJORITIES. 

I Be it what it will the greater part carries it. 

35J)0. POPULARITY. 

I The Crowd, great part of it however, prefers 
the Hat to the Heart. 
3591. AMBITION. 

© Selfish Ambition with a proud Heart wears, 
While young, it's humble weeds. 
359%* election — popular. 

2. Who have the People's Voice ought to be such 
As do deserve their Love, 

3593. 

3. In an Election to high Public Trusts, 
Voices ill-given are Curses to the Givers. 

3594:. LEARNING IGNORANCE. 

4§. The learned should not be as common Fools: 
Nor should the unlearned boast their Ignorance. 

3595. REASONS— VOTES. 

5. Reasons are worthier than mere Votes. 

3596. popularity— -false. , 

§ Who baits for Popularity must omit 
Ileal Necessities, and give way the while 
To unstable Slightness. 

3597 . life — ifs true Measure. 

>£ Prefer a noble Life before a long. 

3598. remedies desperate — where proper. 

2, 'lis wise 
To vamp the Body with a dangerous Physic, 
That's sure of Death without it. 

3599. REFORM. 

3. Be firm : and not more fearful than discreet, 
And love the fundamental part of the State 
More than you doubt the change of it. 



39* SHAKESPERIAN [Coriolanus. 

3600. 

4. Beware : and lick not 
The Sweet that is your Poison. 

3601. dissensions — civil : — moderation, 
© In civil Discords more Respect on both Sides 
Were wise and just, generous and all- preserving, 

3602. ANARCHY— it's EVIL. 

H§ Lawless Confusion lays a City waste : 
Ijt brings the Roof to the Foundation, 
And buries what till then distinctly rang'd 
In heaps and piles of Ruin. 

3603. AUTHORITY. 

52§. We must or stand by our Authority, 
Or be content to lose it. 

3604. MODERATION. 

5§ , Those who would truely be their Country's 

Friends 
Should temperately proceed to heal what others 
Would violently redress. 

3605. COMPENSATION. 

«t- One Time will pay another. 

3606. RASHNESS. 

§ That Manhood is call'd Foolery which Stands 
.Against a falling Fabric. 

3607. LAW. 

4§> Who resists Law, 
Law against him scorns any farther Trial 
Than the Severity of the Public Power 
Which so he sets at nought. 

3()08. MODERATION. 

Do not cry havock when you should but hunt 
With modest warrant. 



Coriolanus.] APHORISMS. 395 

3609. PRIVILEGE. 

t Proceed by Process rather than by Power*. 

S6l0. v 1 o lekce — it's Evils incalculable. 
+ The End of violent Courses is unknown 
To the Beginning, and beyond Conjecture. 

36ll. servility — avoid the Appearance of it. 
f Abstain from Semblance of Servility; 
Lest thou surcease to honor thine own Truth, 
And by thy Body's Action teach the Mind 
A most inherent Baseness f. 

3012. CALUMNY — the AXSWE.R.fo it. 

5§. What by invention base Men charge, the 
Will answer in their Honor. [brave 

S6l3. ANGER. 

6$. Anger being once chaf'd, cannot 
Be rein'd again to Temperance: And then speaks 
What's in the heart ; though it be that which looks 
To break the Neck. 

o6l4. CONTRADICTION. 

7$. Men accustomed 
Ever to conquer, ill endure Reproof 
Or Contradiction. 

3615. PATRIOTISM. 

80. A Patriot loves 
His Country's Good with a respect more- tender, 
More holy and profound than his own Life. 

3616. IGNORANCE. 

9$. Dull Ignorance finds nothing till it feels. 

* It had been well had this been observed in the Cases of 
Mr. GALE JONES and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. 

f A Maxim from the depths of human Nature and moral 
Philosophy : And expresst with the same Sublimity as it 
was conceiv'd. 



396 SHAKESPERIAN [Coriolanus. 

0OI7. FORTITUDE. 

Fortitude says — " There is a World elsewhere." 

36 18-.' FORTUNE. 

§ In lightening Fortune's Wounds when most 
Is shewn a noble Cunning*. [struck home 

0619. PHILOSOPHY. 
§ Precepts there are that make invincible 
The Heart which rightly hears them. 

3620. MODERATION. 

lOJff. Men who have shewn their Power 
Should be seen humbler after all is ; done 
Than when it was in doing. 

3621. dissensions domestic. 

f Enemies, public and private, take advantage 
of domestic Dissensions: like those Libertines 
\vho think it the fittest time to corrupt a Man's 
Wife when she is fallen out with her Husband, 

3622. COALITIONS. 

Thefellest Foes, [sleep, 

Whose Passions and whose Plots have broke their 
To take the one the other, by some chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, shall turn dear 
And interjoin their issues f. [Friends, 

3623. necessity 1 — reconciles. 

© Common Hatreds are silenced when Men 
have need one of another. 

3624 . punishments — should not be hasty. 

ji\. Reason before you punish, 
Lest you should chance to whip your information, 
And beat who well and wisely bids beware 
Of what is to be dreaded. 

* The word was antfently often used in a good sense? as 
in Ps. cxxxvii. 5. Now always in a bad* 
f Unite in the same Projects. 



Corwlanvs.2 APHORISMS. 397 

3625. DISTRESS. 

2. Do not upbraid Distress* 

36*26. GRATITUDE. 

3§. Good- will exerted at request, deserves, 
Though unsuccessful,. Thanks after the measure, 
That it intended well* 

3627. good-nature — the mechanical kind of it. 
The veins unfilFd, the blood is cold ; and then 
We pout upon the Morning* are unapt 
To give or to forgive : When we are fill'd 
With Wine and Feasting, we have suppler Souls 
Than in our Fasts. 

362S. implacability^ dishonorable. 
§ It is not honorable for a noble Mind 
Still to remember Wrong. 

S62g. chang e — progressive. 

There is difference between a Grub and a But- 
terfly . yet a Butterfly was a Grub* 

3630. HEAVEN. 

© Unwise to think, those who respect not Heaven 
That Heaven will them respect** 

3631. HONOR. 

2. No sickness stops an honorable Mind 
From an exploit of Honor. 

* On the contrary, 

*0£ kb 0EOLS eTriTrsiB'floci paXctf c sx\vq? 
Avjoi. HOxVT. 

Him who respects the GODS they gladly hear, 



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39$ SHAKESPERIAN {JuUusCxsar* 

JULIUS CJESAR. 

3632. NECESSITY. 

X What can be avoided 
Whose End is destin'd by Omnipotence. 

3^33. d uty, public ;— before private interest, 
Kt By Men invested with a public Care, 
What touches but themselves should be last 
serv'd. 

3634. JUSTICE; — PITY, 

In aid of Justice Pity drives out Pity. 

3635. pity extiriguisJit by bad Habits. 
Pity is choakt by Custom of fell Deeds. 

3636. fame — censure; posthumous. 
The Evil that Men do lives after them ; 
The Good is oft interred with their Bones. 

3637. ambition. 

© f Unjust Ambition does not often dwell 
With Pity : — it is made of sterner Stuff. 

3638. imitation. 

A barren Spirit is content to feed 
On abject Orts and Imitations. 

3639. pretension. 

Hollow Men, like Horses hot at hand, 
Make gallant shew and promise of their mettle, 
But fail of the Performance. 

3640. justice. 

The just and brave wrongs not his Enemies : 
And, if not so, how should he wrong a Brother ? 

3641. discord. 

Xf HI fits it Leaders of the Public Cause 

Before those Persons fiercely to contend, 

Who should perceive nothing but Love in them. 

364 2 . temper— conciliates. 

<•) Speak your Griefs softly if you seek Redress- 



Julius Ccesar.] APHORISMS. 399 

- 

36'43. captiousness — alienates. 
X In deeply perilous Times it is not fit 
That every nice Offence should bear it's Comment. 

3()44. FRIENDSHIP. 
© Friendship in those it loves loves, not their 

3645. [Faults, 

A friendly Eye is slow to see small Faults. 

364:6. duty— not to be oicr-tdskt. 
Duty should not be urg'd beyond it's Strength. 

3647 .cowardice makes a Shew of c o u rage* 
X Cowards upon necessity assume 
A fearful bravery : thinking by this face 
To fasten in Men's Minds that they have Courage. 

3648. words— angry. 
Words before Blows. 

0649, RESIGNATION has more FORTITUDE 

than suicide, 
2§. The highest Courage is not to prevent 
The term of Life for fear of what may fall ; 
But arm ourselves with patience, and await 
Constant the Providence of that high Power 
Which governs us below. 

3650. PATRIOTISM — TYRANNY. 

3§. His Country's Friend must be a Foe \o Tyrants. 

365 1 . 

© To Patriots there is Glory in Defeat, 
When bravely they have struggled to the last, 
Greater than Tyrants, howsoe'er successful, 
By their vile Conquest ever can attain. 

3652. patriotism— gentle. 

Mildness and Constancy dwell in those oreasts 
Which cherish the benign and generous thpnght 
Of common Good to all. 

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♦00 SHAKESPERIAN {Anthony and 

Cleojiatt'Qi] 

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA. 

3653, CEEDUUTY. 

Credulity still hopes 
Of better things to-morrow*. 

3654-, friendships political. 
© A temporary Policy makes Friends-*- 
But ill to last,— of bitter Enemies. 

3655. MELIORATION* 

Our worser Thoughts Heaven mind ! 

3655. love misplaced. 
Kt Or break the fetters of a misplaced Love, 
Or lose thyself in Dotage. 

3657. fear borders on hatred. 

In time we hate that which we often fear. 

3658. passion — credulous. 

Riotous Madness 
Itself entangles in those mouth-made vows 
Which break themselves in swearing. 

3659. power — courted. 

The hated grown to Strength, 
Grow into seeming Love. 

3660. gre atx ess ; — real; vnenvious, 
2. Of real Greatness it is not the Vice 
To hate a great Competitor. . 

3661. death and distance — their Efect, 
It hath been taught us from the primal Times 
That he which is is wisht until he were, 

And the ebb'd Man endear'd by being lackt ? 

3662. flpG£»\ 

Hunger will deign 
The roughest Berry on the rudest Hedge ? 

? This it is that makes Lotteries. 



{Anthony and APHORISMS; 40J 

Cleopatra.] 

S663. LOVE. 

© Who comes a Messenger from those we Ipvp* 
Is by the Lustre of that Image gilded. 

sffiSi 

g. Benevolence, though sad, will shine on those 
Who borrow" light from her. 

3665: dissensions private, to be sacrificed to 
Forget [the public, 

Private Dissensions when the Public Need 
Speaks to 'atone them*. 

0666. W R A N G L IN G Abuse of TIME. 

§ Then is the Time to wrangle when there is 
nothing else to be done. 

366Y.. RUMOR. 
>£ Read not Men's Blemishes by the "WorlcPs 

3668. adversity. ' [Report, 

Adversity may' mark' a brave Man's Face; 
But in his Bosom she shall never come. 
To make his Heart her* Vassal, 

0669. WOMEN. 

§ Women rarely are 
In their best Fortunes strong. 

36'70. FORCE. 
2§. Constrained Blemishes obtain our Pity, 
As not deserv'd, 

0671. ignorance or despair rash. 
© None are more bold than those whose clouded 
Sees not a Cause o( Fear. [Judgment 

3672 . perturbation excessive— Symptom of 
falling Fortunes. 
3£§ When the high plac'd begin to rage they are 
Even to falling. [hunted 

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402 SHAKESPERIAN [A n tho^ an J. 

Cleo£atra!\ 

3673. adversity multiplies Enemies and their 
Attacks, 
€f. A quick and vehement Adversary seeing 
His Foe at point to fall, gives him no breath; 
Makes boot of his Distraction. 

36/4. opinion multiplies Strength. 
.3. Who are deem'd twenty times of better Fortune 
Have twenty Men in one. 

367p. EORC v E Without REASON, 

§ When Reason fails, our very Force entangles 
Itself with, it's own Strength * r 
3676. pes pa. z. 

To Despair 
All strange and ten/ le Events are welcome ; 
But Comfort it despis s. 

3677;., BENEVOLENCE. 

Genuine Benevolence will overflow 
On all that need 

3678. NATURE — IMAQINATIOINT. 

Mature wants stuff 
To vye strange Forms wi^h Fancy. 

3679. CALAMITY FORBEARANCE, 

Against the fall'n a high and generous Mind 
Knows rather to extenuate than enforce. ( 

3680. calumny attends on greatness. 

The greatest are misthoui>;ht 
For things that others dof: — And sometimes 
falsely. 

* Vis Consili expers Mole rut sua. HOR. 

Can this well be otherwise than a Translation ? 

f This is in a considerable degree applicable to the great 
{.ord BACON. 



\Timon of -APHORISMS. 4.03 

Athens.] 

TIMON OF ATHENS. 

3681. praise, vlien prostituted discredits that 
unichip trufe 
When we for .Recompense have prais'd the vile, 
It stains the Glory of that happy Verse 
Which aptly sings the Good. 

o6'S2. poetry— it's free and ' unfore'd Spirit, 
§ True Poesy is as a Gum which issues 
Whence it is nourisht, free. — The fire in the Flint 
Shews not till it.be struck :— -this gentle Flame 
Itself elicits ": and, like the Current, flies 
All bounds it chafes. 

3683. EYE. 

x tin i ^ »n 

J \\ hat a mental Power 

The Eye shoots' jforth, 

3684. poet — above personal Malice, 

4f+" In a true Poet's verse no leveled malice 
Infects one comma of the course he holds : 
He flies an -Eaglq's, flight ; bold and forth on. 
Leaving no tract behind, 

36S5. FORTUNE, BENIGNITY, BENEVOLENCE 

5§.' A large Fortune [united. 

Upon a good and gracious Nature hanging, 
Subdues and properties to his Love and Tendance 
All sorts of Hearts. 
36S6. FORTUNE. 

6§. The Base of Fortune's Mount 
Is throng* d with all Deserts, all kinds of Natures, 
Who labour on the bosom of that sphere 
To propagate their States, 

3687." [Fortune? 

i§ See how Men's homage shifts with Place and 
This Man i$ rais'd to Power and sudden Wealth. 



404 SHAKESPERIAN [2W ,/ 

Athens, \ 

And those who -were his Fellows but of late,— 
Some better than his station,— on the moment, 
Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance; 
Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear ; 
Make sacred even his. stirrup, and through him 
Drink the free Air!— And thus it is a while. 
When Fortune, in her shift and change of mood, 
Spurns down her late belov'd, those his Dependants 
Which labour'd after him to the Mountain's Top, 
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down. 
Not one accompanying his descending foot*, 

3()88. FRIENDSHIP— DESERTION of it . 

? Tis an ungenerous Nature thatshakes off 
A Friend when he most needs.ns. 

36sg. BExzvoLEKCE^-persevcring, effectual, 
+ Tis not enough to help the feeble up ; 
But to support him after, til J his strength 
Can serve itself. 

0690, honesty is firm and per severing. 
He who is honest will be honest' firmly. 

369 1 . — rewards itself. 

fionesty in itself rewards itself. 

3699. — — -*r^ x nev£r out of Season. 
'Tis always time to be honest. 

0693. youth eager and imitable. 
Our own preceding Passions do instruct us 
What levity is in Youth f. 

36*94<. TiiiExnsniv— zealous and not selfish. 
6§. 'Tis fit that Men 
To benefit a Friend sljoqld strain their Means: 

*, Though the last five lines have been before inserted, it 
seemed best to take the whole in it ? s connection and contrast, 
f Oreus in vitium fleet!, Monitpribus aeper, 
^ubhmiscripidwsGUA, & soxal^rejinfluef* pernio flQR. 



\Timon of APHORISMS. 405 

Athens.] 

(Honor and Honesty always preserved) 
For 'tis a Bond of Men. 

36.95. value internal. 
§ Whene'er Dishonor traffics with Man's Nature, 
At best he is but outside. 

3696. derivative. 

§ Things of like value, differing in their Owners, 
Are prov'd as are their Masters. 

3697. COURTIERS. 

Small Love and much Courtesy. 

3698. FEASTING. 

At many a pompous Feast Meat fills Knaves, 
and Wine heats Fools. 

3699. RICHES. 

The foulest Faults with Riches are call'd fair. 

3700. pomp and splendor— perilous. 
Great Men should drink with harness on their 

3701. temperance. [Throats*, 
Honest Water ne'er left Man in the Mire. 

3702. feasts, 

Feasts are too proud to give Thanks to the Gods. 

3703. TEMts/ak. 

Trust not a Harlot for her weeping. 

3704-. professions — large. 

§ Professions of Friendship which fail in time 
of need are like sweet Instruments hung up in 4 
Case, to keep their Sounds to themselves when 
most wanted. 

3705. beneficence — man born for it. 
We are born to do Benefits. 

* Nulla aconita bibuntur 
Fictilibus : tunc ilia time quum pocula sumes 
Gemmata ? & lato Setinum ardebit in Auro, JUV* 



40S SHAKESPERIAN {Timon of 

Athens,] 

3706. EXAMPLE. 

© A bad Example is not mended by calling 
it the Example of our Betters. 

3707. pride and vanity — mad. 
Like Madness is the Glory of this Life. 

3/08. FOLLY* 
We make ourselves Fools to disport ourselves, 

3/09. TRUTH. 
2. Who locks up Truth from Man locks his Heaven 

3710. flattery. [from him., 

O that -Men's Ears should be 
To Counsel deaf, but not to Flattery ! 

3711. necessity — takes not Words in Payment. 
To need which is immediate, ihe Relief 

Must not be tosst and turn'd in flattering Words: 
Supply must be immediate. 

3712. friend — to be considered as well as self. 
4- Break not a Friend's back to ease but thy 

3713. justice. [linger. 
? Mid other noble parts Justice should be, 

And doing Right tp all. 

3714. futurity. 
The Future comes apace. 

3715. flattery disappears with prosperity. 
When Means are gone which purchase flattering 

Praise, 
The breath is gone wherewith that Praise is made,, 

3716. 
Feast won, Fast lost. 

3717. adversity. 
Wants try Friends. 

3718. disposition— may be warpt. 

A noble Nature 
May catch a Wrench. 



{Tlmon of APHORISMS. 407 

Athens.'] 

3719. generosity t oo often declines w age 
§ Too oft 'tis found [advances* 

With lack of kindly warmth Kindness declines, 
And Nature, as she grows again toward Earth, 
Is fashion'd for the journey ; dull and heavy. 

3720* DISTRUST. 
§ Distrust of human-kind is Bounty's Foe. 

3721. generosity confiding, 
§ The liberal, free theirselves, believe all others 

3722.' refusals. [so, 

When Checks begin, successively they press: 
He that is once denied will hardly speed. 

3723, FLATTERER. 

Of the same piece is every Flatterer's Spirit. 

372-1-. policy —false and selfish, 
© f A selfish Policy sits above Conscience 
In stern and haughty coldness. 

3725. BIGOTRY. 

There are who under hot 
And ardent Zeal, would set whole Realms on five, 

3726. INGRATITUDE. 

Ingratitude is baser e'en than Theft. 

3727. law —fathomless. 

The Law is as an Ocean beyond Depth 

To those that without heed do plunge into it. 

3728. paradox — moral; often pemicionsh) 
'Tis an ill Paradox [niaiJitam'd. 

To strive to make an ugly Deed look fair. 

3729. QUARRELLING. 

Quarrelling is Valour misbegot. 

3730. DUELLING. 

If Wrongs be Evils, and enforce us kill, 
What Folly is't to hazard Life for 111 t 



408 SHAKESPERIAN ' [Timo* *f 

Athens.} 

3731. homicide — malicious. 
Maliciously to kill is Sin's extremest gusto 

3732. defensive. 

To kill in necessary Defence, most just. 

3733. MURTHER. 

He forfeits his own blood that spills another's*. 

3734. friendships— -false are unsteady. 
The Swallow follows not Summer more wil* 

lingly, or more willingly leaves Winter, than false 
friends follow Prosperity, and fly from Adversity. 

3735. man corrupt ; his cruelty. 
Kinder than Man corrupt the unkindest Beast. 

3736. desertion — by false friends. 
§ As Men do turn their backs 

From their Companion thrown into his Grave, 
So do his false Friends from his buried Fortune 
Slink all away, leaving their false vows with him, 
Like empty Purses, pickt : And his poor self, 
A dedicated Beggar to the Air, 
With his Disease and all shun'd Poverty 
Walks, like Contempt, alone. 

3737. riches. 

Riches oft lead to Misery and Contempt! 
Who'd be so mockt with Glory : — or to live 
But in a Dream of Friendship f 
To have his Pomp and all what State compounds 
But only painted like his varnisht Friends. 

373S. happiness — not in circumstances. 
Ht Trust not to circumstances :— some are rich 
But to be wretched: blest in others thought, 
And in their own accurst: thus their great Fortunes 
Are made their chief Afflictions. 

* GEN. ix. S. 



rTmon of APHORISMS, 405 

Athens.] 

SJSg. prosperity — tires. 
© 'Tis hard to bear great Fortune*. 

3740. COMPARISON. 

Every grizef of Fortune 
Is smooth'd by that below. [dexce* 

3741. learning should maintain ikdepen- 
§ Shame, when the learned pate 

Ducks to the golden Fool. 

3742. gold — a great corrupter. 

A little Gold will make black white, foul fair; 
Wrong right ; base noble \ old young; cowards 

valiant; 
Will knit and break Religions ; bless the accurst y 
Make the hoar Leprosy aclor'd ': place Thieves, 
And give them title, knee, and approbation 
With Senators of the Bench. 

3743. misanthropy. 

X Strange that to him Man should of Hate be 
Who is, himself, a Man. [object, 

3744. MISERY — PROSPERITY. 

A discerning Eye may see many a Man's Misery 
in his Prosperity. 

3745. corruption. 

2§« Any thing the corrupt will do for Gold. 

3746*. PROFLIGACY. 

More Whore, more Mischief. 
3747. praise — excessive. 
© Men daily find the harm of too much Praise. 

* Bene ferre magnam 
Disce Fortunam. HOR. 

f Step, degree. 



Jf n 



410 , SHAKESPERIAN \Timon f 

Athen^"\ 
3748. SENSUALITY. 

§ Licorish Draughts 
And Morsels unctious pamper the pure Mind 
Till from it all Consideration slips. 

37*^9. folly or wickedness to distress the 

UNHAPPY. 

t To add to the Distress of the Unhappy 
Is or a Villain's Office or a Fool's. 

3750, CONSTRAINT. 

What's done enforcedly will cease to be 
When the Force ceases*. 

3751. suffering — unaccustomed. 

© For those to suffer 
Who never tasted Suffering, is a Burthen. 

3752* PRODIGALITY. 

2. Prodigality seldom knows more than the two 
extremes of which Humanity is the Meanf. 

3753. 

How rarely is a Prodigal lov'd longer than his 
means last ! 

3754. dog. 

He has a sure Friend who can keep a Dog. 

3755. wants: natural; artificial. [Roots: 
Jt-f- Nature her Children feeds — the Earth has 
Exuberant break forth a thousand Springs : 
The Oaks bear Acorns ; Briars scarlet Hip ; 
And the Beech Mast : — bounteous on every bush 
She spreads her life-supporting stores. But Man 
For Luxury, Pride, and Disease, devours. 

* Haud diuturnus Magister Officii Metus. LIV. 
f We have here the Depth, Precision, and Acuteness of 
ARISTOTLE. 



{TimoHof APHORISMS. 411 

Athens.] 
3756. FRIENDSHIP-/^. 

§ What viler upon Earth than those false Friends 
Who can bring noblest Minds to basest Ends. 

5757- kindness — pret ended. 
§f There is a subtle and a covetous Kindness: 
A Kindness of Pretence and Selfishness. 

3758. suspicion. 
3£§ Spend-thrifts should fear false Friends when 

they do feast : 
Suspect still comes when an Estate is least. 

3759- promises. 
Promising is most courtly and fashionable. 

3760. 
Promising opens the eyes of Expectation. 

3761. satirist. 

2§. It is odds but the Satirist whips his own 
Faults in other Men. 

3762. day not to be wasted, [Night, 
§ When the Day serves, before black, gloomy, 
Find what thou want'st by free and proffer'd Light, 

3763. DECEIT — SELF.' 

© Few are deceiv'd so much by any as by them- 

3764. CHANGE— -HE ALTJI. [selves. 

2. Men are not still the same; whom Misery 
Ease often may restore. [chang'd, 

3765. public bodies seldom acknovMgc 
§ A Public Body seldom [error. 

Plays the Recanter. 

3766. WAR. 

Mad-brain'd is War; brutal, and contumelious, 

3767. CALAMITY — PUBLIC. 

Unnatural 
He that rejoices in the common Wreck. 
K n 2 



412 SHAKESPERIAN [Titus Andnn.\ 

3?6S. retribution — national. [Time 

§ States which have long gone on and fill'd the 
With all licentious Measure, making their Will 
The scope of Justice, come to evil End. 

37 69. w ARskould discriminate,, 

Not all deserve 
The common Stroke of War, 

3770. revenge — unnatural. 

t Revenge hungers for food 
Which Nature loaths — Man's Misery from Man, 

3771. crime. 

Crimes, like to Lands, 
Are not inherited. 

3772. war — it's Limits. 

<D Use War at most as the Redress of Wrong; 
Not as Destruction to the Enemy*. 

3773. 
K+ A generous Conqueror suffers not a Man 
To pass his Quarters, or offend the Stream 
Of regular Justice in a captur'd City 



TITUS ANDROMCUS. 

377^. station" — high should be irreproachably 
Suffer not Dishonor to approach 
The* Imperial Seat to Virtue consecrated, 
To Justice, Continence, and Nobility. 

3775. PATRIOTISM. 

8t« They sleep in Peace who in their Country's 
Fall, for her just Defence. [War* 

3776\ 
Think, if to fight for King and Common-weal 
U Piety in thine, 'tis in thy Foes. 

* VATTEL,. FRANKLIN. 



{Trtus Andron.'] APHORISMS, 413 

3777. DEATH — the SEAL of VIRTUE. 

§ The safest Triumph is the funeral Pomp 
That hath attain d to Solon s Happiness, 
And triumphs overChance in Honor's Bed, 

377S. popularity — the true. 
Ever, with Justice, be the People's Friend. 

3779- JUSTICE. 

Suu7ir caique. 

3780. FRIENDSHIP. 

3*. Lose not a nobl^ Friend on vain suppose} 
Nor with sour looks afflict a gentle Heart. 

3781. court. 

A%< A Court is full of Tongue? and Ears and Eyes, 
Vigilant as the fabled House of Fame. 

3782. IMAGINATION. 

5. The Heart suspects more than the Eye can see, 

3783. TREACHERY. 

'Tis a dread Wonder that Man s face can fold 
In pleasing Smiles such murtherous Tyranny. 

3781. sorrow. 
Sorrow conceal'd does burn the Heart to cinder. 

3785. mischief — rapid. 

An hour's Storm will drown the fragrant Meads. 

3786. calamity irascible. 

Losers will have leave 
To ease their Stomach with their bitter Tongues. 
37S7. iiw without if 'sm&ral\ intellectual, and 
social Energies. 
That ever Death should let Life bear it's Name, 
\Yhen Life hath no more interest but to breathe*. 

* flato}' 6%8cra cvrjvwi 

T OKTTPuypatriv^&vqKCiSlcio-V eoyotcrr; a. 
- ;,n3 EURIP. HELENA. 



*14 STI AKESPERIAN {Titus And™.] 

37S8. CRUELTY. 

© Tis savage and unnatural to make sport 
Of Deeds of Death done on the innocent, 
How low soever m the scale of Nature ; 
Be it a Worm, a Fly. 

37 89- GRIEF. 

Grief so distracts the Mind, 
It takes false Shadows for true Substances. 

3790. BLUSHES. 

Blushes -will 'betray 
The close enacts and Counsels of the Heart. 

3791. education — hardy. 

yil An hardy Education best prepares 
To be a Warrior and command a Camp*. 

379?- distraction. 

Z§. By Day and Nightattend it carefully, 
And soothe it's humor kindly as, you may, 
Till Time beget some long-sought Remedy. 

37"93> ; o Rea tn ess ;-r rue, above little Annoyances. 
Is the Sun dimm'd because Gnats fly before it. 

379*. 
The Eagle suffers little Birds to sing, 
And is not careful what they mean by it, 
Knowing, that by the shadow of his wing 
He can at pleasure shut their Melody. 

379-5. kings. 
Kings should in Thoughts be royal as in Name. 

3796. OATH. 

© He who believes no God reveres no Oath. 

3797. CHASTITY. 

2. Dearer than Life is spotless Chastity. 

* Rusticorum mascula MiKtum 
Proles, sabellis docta ligonibus 
yersare Glebas. HOR. 



[TWfcrW APHORISMS. 415 

Cressida.] 

TROILUSAND CRESSIDA. 

3798. war. 

Now good, now bad ! — Such is the chance of War*. 

3799. folly and SENSE. 

Kt We sometimes find Folly sauc'd with Dis- 
cretion, enough, of it to make the Folly more 
noticed. 

5800, TALENTS— Without SYSTEM. 

© Sorme have abundant Faculties, but want 
the commanding and combining Intellect to re- 
duce them to Use and Order : many, hands and 
no action ; all eyes and no sight. 

3801. TEMPO — INEQUALITY, 

2. Those who -are melancholy with slight caus/B 
will be merry with x as little. 

3802. EXPECTATION. 

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is. 

3803. GRIEF JAUNDICE. 

Grief sets a Jaundice on the Cheek. 

3804. hope magyiifics. 

§ The ample proposition that Hope makes 
In our Designs begun on Earth below, 
Fails in the promised largeness. 

380.5. remedy. 
X$ The Nature of the Sickness found suggests 
The Remedy. 

.3S06. buffoonery. 
2§. 'Tis wretched when the faint Defects of Age 
Are made the Theme of Mirth. 

3807. MALIGNITY SLANDER. 

Malignity is the Mint of Slander. 



41.6 SHAKESPERIAN [7W/ W w 

Crtssida^\ 

3808. strength and perseverance. 
Blunt Wedges rive hard Knots. 

3 809- P RE v e N T ioy. 
J3. A growing Mischief must in time be crosst; 
Or it will breed a nursery of like Evil 
To overwhelm all else. 

3810. reason better than rhetoric. 
Should not a King 
Bear the great sway of his Affairs with" Reasons, 
Because a Speech has none that tells him so ? 

3811* reason chuses the lea^t evil. 
<*> Reason shuns the object of all harm, 
Unless a greater harm be in the avoidance | 
To shun harrn then is Cdwardice or Folly,- 
When Virtue, Wisdom, Honor, bid us meet it* 

3812. LAW Of NATURE tf^r/ NATIONS. 

I The moral Laws 
Of Nature and of Nations speak aloufd 
To uncorrupted Judgments : but these Laws 
Through Interest and Passion are seen dimly; 
So that great Minds, of partial* Indulgence 
To their benurnmed Will, do yet resist them. 

3813. faults — Insensibility to our own* 

® In the cure of -Faults he often will assume 
the Physician who should be the Patient. 

38li. honor —national. - 
>£§ Weigh not the Honor of a King or State 
With common Counters, as a thing of Traffic, 

3815. will — POWER. 

The Will is infinite; the Execution confin'd. 

38 16. lovers' vows. 

Lovers swear -beyond possibility; and yet re- 
serve an ability that they never perform. 
* TrisylL 



{Troihsand APHORISMS. 417 

Crcssida.] 

3817. love Sf prude n c e — not easily reconciled. 

To be wise and love 
Exceeds Man's might — that dwells with Gods 

3818. renown — spurious. [above *• 

Men are sometimes renown' d 
For Acts that very Chance has thrown upon them, 

3819. glory — it's Pursuit. 

In the Pursuit of Fame if you give way, 
Or turn aside from the direct forthright, 
Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by, 
And leave you hindermost : And there you lie, 
Like to a gallant Horse, fallen in first rank, 
For pavement to the abject rear ; — o'er-run 
And trampled on. — Then what they do in present, 
Tho' less than your's in past, must o'ertop your's ; 
For Time is like a fashionable Host 
That slightly shakes his parting Guest by the hand, 
And with his Arms outstretcht as he would fly, 
Grasps in the Comer. 

3820. WELCOME — FAREWELL. 

Welcome ever smiles, 
And Farewell gees out sighing. 

3821. PRUDENCE«*FOLLV. 

+ Fools slide over that Ice in thoughtless rashness, 
Which the wise break-^-nor trust the specious 

3822. perturbation. [mischief, 
A troubled Mind is like a Fountain stirr'df. 

3823. PROFLIGACY. 

There are those who will not be good, nor 
suffer others. 

* Amare & sapere vix Deo conceditur. 
ji Prov. xxv. 26. 



418 SHAKESPERIAN [7WA»*rf 

Cressida.] 

3824. friendship— mistaken. 
© To favor the Errors of a Friend at the 
expense of his Virtues, is being so true as to be 
false tp him. 

3825. 

&. An indiscreet Zeal may wrong a Friend be- 
fore the party misled by it is aware. 

3826. love domineers oygr the other Affections* 
>£ The Heart which Love has fully occupied 
Can know no touch of Friendship or of Kindred, 
No Consanguinity, no Sojul so near it, 

As the belov'd. 

3827. time* 

Time is the great and common Arbitrator. 

3828. WOPvDg — DEEDS. 

Deeds should match our Words. 

3829. love. 

Too oft sweet Love is prey to Fortune's Tooth. 

3830. PATIENCE. 

© Between himself and all that might pervert 
His Reason, and withdraw him trom his Duty, 
The wise Man puts a Guard of Patience*. 

3831. RETREAT. 

X§ It is not Flight, but advantageous Care, 
Retreating from the odds of Multitude. 

3832. LECHERY. 

§ Lechery consumes itself. 

3833. corruption — the Tate of it's Tools. 
2J. The Agents of Treachery and Corruptioa 

are earnestly set about and ill requited. 

* Quddrisyll. 



Cymbeline.] APHORISMS. 4i$ 

CYMBELINE. 

3834. CRUELTY. 

© Cruelty practis'd upon Animals 

Makes hard the Heart to Cruelty still greater *V 

3835. OPPORTUNITY. 

In Suits of difficult success be friended 
By aptness of the Season f. 

3S36\ vice funis lit by success. 
2. There is no greater Punishment of Vice 
Than that it have it's Will* 

3837. actions. 
Let Proof speak. 

3838. griefs or cares. 
Some Griefs are medicinable. 

. 3839, courts. At a Court 

Our Service is not Service so being done. 

But being so allowed. 

3840. observation. 

A right Judgment 
Draws us a Profit from ail things we see* 

3841. security. 

Often shall we find 
The sharded Beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing'd Eagle. 

3842. courtiers. 

J Courtly Customers 
Oft gain the cap of him that makes them fine. 
Yet keeps his Book uncross'd. 

* Quam male consuevit, quam se parat ille cruori 
Inipius humano, vituli qui guttura cultro 
Rumpit, & immotas pr«stat mugitibus aures ! v 
Aut qui vegitus similes puerilibus haedum 
Edentem jugulare potest. GV« 

f Qua moliis&ima fandi 
Tempore VIRG- 



420 SHAKESPERIAN [Cymbeline. 

3843. imprisonment overcomes not a free 

X Courageous Innocence [Mind. 
Is in a Prison as the Bird encag'd, 
Who sings his Bondage freely*. 

3844. news Bad — soften d by the Manner of 

telling it. 
Kt A kind Tongue and a wise, relating Ills, 
May take off some extremity, which else 
Were mortal to the Hearer. 

3845. ACCUSATION. 

Speak not out of weak surmises. 

3 846 . vows of men — deceitful* 
Men's Vows are Women's Traitors. 

3847. insincerity in the two Extremes of 

Will poor Folks lie [fortune. 

That have Afflictions on them ; knowing 'tis 
For Poverty or Trial? Yet, no wonder: 
When rich ones scarce speak true. 

3848. humanity — it's common Kindred. 
§ Man should to Man be Brother. 

3849. love. 

Love reasons without Reasonf. 

3850. obedience — due only to law and 

2§. 'Tis not for Man [reason. 

To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat him, 
Play Judge and Executioner all himself. 

3851. solemnity. 

All solemn things 
Should answer solemn Accidents. 

* " None but my Father would keep such a Bird as this 
in a Cage:" said Htnry, Son of J A. I. of Sir WALTER 
RALEIGH. 

f It is Sentiment ; the Reason of the Heart. And so savs 
ROUSSEAU. 



Cymbeline.] APHORISMS- 421 

3852. SOLEMNITY. 

§ Play not in forc'd affected Words with that 
Which is most serious. 

3853. ENTERPRIZE. 

3§. An active Spirit 
Can little pleasure find in Life, if lockt 
From Action and Adventure. 

3854. idleness. 

4§. It is a Shame 
To look upon the holy Sun, to have 
The Benefit of his blest Beams, and live 
In Idleness. 

3855. SIMPLICITY. 

Less without, and more within, 

3856. NOBILITY. 

§ Knighthoods and Honors borne 
Without Desert, are Titles but of Scorn. 
3S57. COWARDS. 

5§. Cowards live 
To die with lengthen'd shame. 
3858. obedience — pious. 

§ To be blest, 
Let us with care perform Heaven's great Behest, 
3859- dependance. 

§ Poor Wretches who depend 
On great Men's favor dream an idle Dream, 
Wake and find nothing*. 

3860. DEATH. 

No bolts for the Deadf. 

* Is. xxix. 8. 

f Literally this is not true. But the meaning is like that 
of SOCRATES : ■ The Carcase may be confinM ; but not 
so the Spirit*' 

o o 



M SHAKESPERIAN [Lear. 

3$6i. &EATH. 

§ Although 
By Medicine Life may be prolonged, yet Death 
Will seize the Doctor too. 

3862. i'ORTi^uDfi. 
A Roman with a Roman Heart can suffer. 

386*3. HOX0R. 

6. Honor is the Grace of Greatness. 

3864* MARRIAGE. 

In Marriage 
There should be Qualities belov'd in Woman 
With Constancy ; beside that winning bait 
Fairness, which strikes the eye. 

3865. peace: 

The fingers of the Powers above do tune 
The Harmony of Peace. 

LEAR. 

3866. love. 

© True Love is poor in Words i — loves and is 

3867. love— disinterested. [silent. 

f Love is not Love 
When mingled with regards of bnser Nature 
It rests upon their sufferance, and stands 
Aloof from the entire point. 

3868. 
Love is richer than the Tongue. 

3869. CAUSE. 

Nothing can come of Nothing* 

3870. SINCERITY. 

4*- Those a,re not empty headed whose low sound 
"Beverberates.no hollo wness*. 

* An empty Tub makes the greatest Swad. PROV. 



Lca,\] APHORISMS. 42? 

3871. life to be chearfully sacrificed to duty. 
A brave and good Man fears not to lp§e Life 
Upon a worthy Motive. 

3872. VIRTUE.. 

Xt Earth is no Boundary for a virtuous Mind ; 
It loses here another where* to find. 

3873. tyranny. 

Tyranny sways uot as U has Power, but as it is 
suffer'd. 

3874. SELF-LOVE. 

® Self-Love lays our M is fortune to anything 
but our Fault. 

3875. ASTROLOGY. 

2. Astrology is Deceit and Folly. 

3876. AVTHOUiTY-abdicated willnot bp ixcaiVd* 

It is idle 
To think to manage those Authorities 
Which we have given away. 

3877. simplicity. 

>£ Be no less than you seem. 
'3878. imprudence parental. 

© He who parts with every thing to his Chil- 
dren during bis Life-time, should have kept ft 
Fool's Cap for himself. 

3 8 79 truth — ill endur'd. 
Truth's a Dog must to kennel. 

3880. maxims — prudential. 
Have more than thou shoivest. 

3881. 
Speak less than thou knowest. 

* " Where," the Adverb for the Substantive: a better 
Habitation. 

o o 2 



42* SHAKESPERIAN [Lear. 

3882. 
Lend less than thou owest*. 

3883. 
Learn more than thou trowest. 

3884. 
Set less than thou throwest. 

3S85. 
Leave thy Drink and thy Whore, 
And keep in a Door, 
And thou shalt have more 
Than two ten's to a score. 

3886. PRODIGALITY. 

He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, 
Weary of all, shall want some. 

3S§7. INGRATITUDE. 

The Hedge-sparrow fed the Cuckoo so long, 
That it had it's Head bit off by it's Young. 

3888. age and station. 
2. Old Men of reverend Station should be wise, 

3889- improvement — has Limits, 
Striving to better, oft we mar what's wellf. 

3S90. parricide. 
§ Heaven all it's Thunders bends 'gainstParricide. 

3891. WTY—Jilial. 

§ Think with how manifold and strong a Bond 
The Child is bound to the Father. 

3892. hope. . 

f In all Afflictions 
Lay Comforts to your Bosom. 

* To " owe" in antient phraseology— to own, to possess. 
ff The Man that oxueth this Girdle." ^ ACTS. 

f Stava ben j ma per starmeglio sto (juu ITA-L. EPIT, 



Itar:] APHORISMS. 4£$. 

3893. RAILING. 

K Kail not at those whom yoa know not*. 

3S94. ANGER. 
Anger has a Privilege. 

3S9-5. arms, honor, and honesty, 

2. Those should not wear a Sword . 
Who wear no Honesty. 

389-6. FLATTERERS, 

t Deceitful, smiling, fawning Flatterers, 
Like Rats, oft bite the holy cords in twain 
Too intricate to' unloose ; soothe every Passion 
That in the nature of their Lords rebels : 
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks 
With every gale and vary of their Masters f. 

3897. bluets ess— affected. 

There are those 
Who having been prais'd for Bluntness, do affect 
A saucy roughness, and constrain the garb 
Quite from it's nature. — He can not flatter, he, 
An honest Mind and plain: — he must speak 

Truth ; — 
An they will take it, — so : — -if not, he's plain. 

3898. children often folloxc Interest rather 

than Duty or Affection. 
Fathers that wear Rags 

Do make their Children blind; 
But Fathers that bear Bags 

Shall see their Children kind. . 

* Quid de quoque viro, & cui dicas, socpe caveto. HOR. 
\ Negat, nego; ait, aio; postreiuo impel avi egomet mihi 
Omnia assentiri. TER. 



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m SHARESPERIAN £Lear« 

3899. PRUDENCE. 

§ Go to school to the Ant, and learn tfet them 
is no laboring in Winter*. 

3p00. illness— a fair -Excuse for Neglects. 
Infirmity doth still neglect all office [selves 

M- hereto our Health feels bound : we are not our- 
When Nature being oppress!, commands the Mind 
To suffer with the Body. 

39pi. 
Take not the indisposed and sickly fit 
For the' sound Man. 

3.Q02. servants — imitate whom they serve. 
|£ J The easy-borrowed Pride of worthless Servants 
P wells in the tickle Grace of those they follow. 

3903. reason. 
f Mingle Reason with ypnr Passion. 

3904; COMPARISON. 

§ F/en kicked Creatures yet do look w-ell favor'cj 
When others are more wicked : — not being worst 
Stands in so'Tne rank of Praise,. 

3905- MAN. 
fil. Man is a little World. " 

' 390(). FRANCE. 

3$. France is wise in our Negligence, 

3907. EEGGARS. 

Beggars marry f. 

* Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni Formica Laborte 
Ore trahit quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo 
Quern struil, baud ignara, & non incauta, Futuri. 
Quaj ? simul inversum contristat A^ari 115 Annum, 
Haud usquam prorepit, & ill is utitur ante 
Qussitis, Sapiens. ' J|QR. & PROV. vu6. & xxx. 25* 
f An Author, sufficiently celebrated, says this is a great 
$£vii, And would have had an Act pass which should pre- 
sent their marrying till they probably would have been §9 



frar.] APHORISMS. 427 

3908. MISERIES — petti/. 

The Man thai rr>akes his Toe 

What he his Heart should make. 
Shall of a Corn cry woe, 

And turn his Sleep to wake. 

3909. .succession. 

The younger riseth when the old -doth fall, 

3910c .INGRATITUDE— -jilial. 

§ filial Ingratitude 
Is as the Mouth should tear the aiding Hand 
For lifting food to it. . 

39 1 1 ■ . B b d 1 v n Qz—jitiaL 
Obey thy Parents. 

391-2. TRUTH to PHO-MISE> 

Keep thy word justly, 

3913. OATHS. 

Swear not. 

3914. ADULTERY. 

Commit not with Man's sworn Spouse, 

3915. LUXURY 111 DRESS. 

Set not thy Heart oil proud Array. 

3916. CONTINENCE. 

Keep thy foot out of Brothels. 

3917« PRUDENCE. 

Keep thy pen from Lenders' Books. 

long prevented as to think no more of it. There are two 
objections to this:— that it would be tyrannical and imprac- 
ticable. There is a third, that had it been practicable, and 
put into effect, the Author and other A^nor? would soon 
have had something else to do than to indulge their specula- 
tions. The mere Fi;h round our Island would supply, were 
the Fisheries encouraged to the utmost, mere subsistence than 
ten, perhaps an hundred, times the Population cf this and the 
neighbouring Islands could consume. 



*28 SHAKESPERIAN [Lear. 

3918. FLATTERY. 

§ Better mere Contempt 
Than be contemn'd and flatter'd. 

3919. calamity progressive. 

In great extremities the worst is not 
80 long as we can say this is the worst. 

3920. IRRITATION. 

Bad is the Trade that must play Fool to Sorrow, 
Angering itself and others. 

392 1 . L u x u r Y-~~unfeeling. 

© Much needs that Luxury Heaven's Chastise* 
That will not see because it does not feel. [ment& 

3922. wishes. 
Wishes may prove Effects*, 

3923, PROFLIGACY, TEEA'ettERY, <$• CRUELTY 

most odious in w omen . 
Proper Deformity seems not in the Fiend 
So odious as in Woman, 

3924?. despair — Treatment of it. 
2. To trifle in kind Caution with Despair 
May sometimes cure : — but 'tis a desperate Task. 

3925. life and death may depend on 

IMAGINATION. 

Conceit may rob 
The Treasury of Life, when Life itself 
Yields to the Theft. 

3926. 11 E a v e N an unfailing Source of hove, 

3. Heaven makes it's Honours 
Of Men's impossibilities to preserve. 

3927. WISDOM, FORTITUDE, PATIENCE. 

Bear free and patient Thoughts. 

1 
* Strong Volition determines to Action^ 



Lear,] APHORISMS. 429 

3928. TEMPORIZING. 

Aye and No too is no good Divinity. 

3929. OFFICE. 

A Dogs obeyed in Office*. 

3930. policy-— -false. 

§ A scurvy Politician seems 
To see the Things he does not. 

393 1 . madness — it's Distinction from F L L T 

or IDIOCY. 

§ Distraction 
Has Matter and Impertinency mixt, 
Reason in Madness. 

3932. suicide. 

Be not tempted 
To die till Nature bids. 

3933. sympathy from SUFFERING. 
Minds by the habit of knowing and feeling Sorrow 
Are pregnant to good Pityf. 

3934?. gratitude. 

X§ To a generous Mind 
A Benefit acknowledged is o'erpaid, 

oQoo, confidence liberal to talent with 
virtue and experience, [freely 
© Those who are worthy of great Trust should 
Be govern'' d by their Knowledge, and proceed 
T the way of their own Will. 

3936. RUMOR. 
Report is changeable, 

* The Poet is, I know not why," generally hard on Dogs. 
Yet, when not corrupted by Man, they are wise, benevolent, 
and faithful. 

f Almost a Translation of that admirable Verse— 
H Haud ignara Mali miseris succurrere disco* 11 VIRG* 



430 5HAKESPERUN [Lear. 

3937- UNSTEADINESS. 

In great emergencies unsteady Tempers 
Are full of Self-Reproof and Alteration, 

3938. COURAGE — JUSTICE. 

X§ Where he can not be honest, 
What good Man can be valiant*? 

3939. invasion. 

2$. Combine together 'gainst the Enemy: 
For then domestic and particular Broils 
Are not to question. 

3940. action. 

A perilous State 
Calls for a prompt Defence ; not for Debate f . 

3941. justice. 

Pray that the Right may thrive, 

3942. DEATIJ. 

Men must endure 
Their going home e'en as their coming hither 1 
Ripeness is all. 

3943. patience and fortitude. 

f Suffering unjustly, thus console yourselves : 
That you are not the first by many and great. 
Who with good IVJeaning have incurr'd the worst, 

3944. WApf best a great EviL 

§ E'en the best Quarrels in their heat are curst 
By those who feel their sharpness. 

3945. jest— may be more serious than supposed. 
Jesters jdo oft prove Prophets £„ 

* Fortitude est Virtus pro Justitia pugnans. CIC. de OFF, 
f Non iroplenda est Curia Yerbis 
Tunc cum Bella Manus poscunt. VIRG. 

I A dignified Manner of expressing the Proverb — i 
" Many a true Word spoken in Jest.'* 
Although it be beyond the scope of this Collection of 



[Romeo and APHORISMS. 43* 

Juliet.'] 

394fc JUSTlCE-r-rf/t'zVze, 

Heaven is most just : and of our pleasant Vices 
Makes Instruments to scourge us. 

3947. life — the natural Lore of it. 

our Life's Sweetness, 
That we th6£aih of Death would hourly suffer, i 
Rather than die at otice ! 

3948. prudence and independence. 
While you live draw your neck out of the Collar * 

HOMED AND JULIET, 

3.Q49*. firmness energetic. 

o§. Those strike quickly being rnov'd who are 
fiot quickly mov'd to strike. [given. 

3950. ,4 by ice— unpleasant should be cautiously 
Bid a sick Man in sddness make his Will : 
O Word il!-urg'd to one that is so ill. 

395 1 i calamities — there are those -which can 
not be forgotten. 
He who is stricken blind can not forget 
The precious treasure of his Eye-sight lost* 

Aphorisms to illustrate the dramatic Beauties of the Poet, 
yet this I must say, the Catastrophe of Lear seems to be 
a consummate Result of dramatic Skill and Experience, 
united with Genius. The Developement, complex as it is, 
is most skilfully and powerfully conducted. It grows from 
the Characters and Situations : is natural,- most deeply In- 
teresting, and sublimely aweful. It is Terror and Pathos 
carried to their height, and concentrated, as they ought, 
on LEAR: who from an object of Pity rises into Respect 
and Admiration ; all his Energies being excited and wonder- 
fully called forth. And the Difference in the last Calamities 
between the Sufferings of Innocence and those of Guilt are 
most expressively markt. 



432 SHAKESPERIAN [*«*«*** 

Juliet.] 
S952. INCONSIDERABLENESS. 

4 §. Such there are 
Who some in number are in reckoning none. 

3953. COUNTERACTION. 

One fire burns out another's burning ; 
One pain is lessen' d by another's anguish : 

Being giddy, help thyself by backward turning;. 
One desperate grief cures by another's languish. 

3954. beauty external and internal. 

§ 'Tis much Pride 
For fair without the fair within to veil, 

3955* POWER MONOPOLY of. 

5. When good Manners shall all lie in One or 
two Men's hands, and they unwasht too, 'tis a 
foul thing. 

3956. anger — under constraint. 
Patience perforce with wilful Choler meeting, 

M akes the flesh tremble at their different greeting, 

3957. LOVE. 

6§. The Power of Love 
Tempers extremities with extreme Sweet. 

3958. 
$ Whatever is possible Love dares attempt. 

: 3959- 

7. The more of Love is given, 
The more there is : for Love is infinite. 

3960. 
Love goes towards Love as School-Boys to their 

Books ; 
But Love from Love, toward School, with heavy 

3961. [looks. 

How silver sweet sound Lovers' Tongues by 
Like softest Music to attending Ears ! [Night, 



[Romeo and ' APHORISMS. 433 

Juliet.'] 

3962. LEAVE-TAKING. 

Parting is such sweet Sorrow, 
Lovers would say " Good Night" till it be morrow* 

3963. EARTH. 

The Earth that's Nature's Mother is her Tomb : 
"What is her burying Grave that is her Womb* : 
And from her VVomb Children of different kind 
We sucking on her natural Bosom find : 
Many for many Virtues excellent ; 
None but for some, and yet all different. 

3964. SLEEP — CARE. 

Care keeps his Watch in every old Man's Eye; 
And where Care lodges Sleep will never lie : 
But where unbruised Youth with unstufft Brain 
Doth couch his limbs, there golden Sleep doth 

3960. equivocation. [reign. 

Riddling Confession finds but riddling Shrift. 

3966. EYES. 
Men's Eyes were made to look. 
3967. intercession -none should warp JUSTICE. 
8. Nor Tears nor Prayers should purchase out 

3968. love. [Abuses. 

9$. To a Lover's Ear the Tongue that merely speaks 
The Name belov'd, speaks heavenly Eloquence. 

3969- words ;-^few, decisive. 
10$. Brief Sounds determine oft of Weal or Woe, 

3970. DEATH. 

Death is but Exile from this lower World. 

3971. passion. 

© Those that are mad with Passion have no Ears, 

* Terra eadem Genetrix Rerum, & commune Sepulchrum, 
* P 



43* SHAKESPERIAN [Romeo and 

Juliet.] 

3972. FEELING the SOURCE of ELOQU EN CE. 

Ill can Men speak of what they do not feel*. 

3973. DEATH. 

Death is the End of all. 

397*. happiness— -from disposition; not 

CIRCUMSTANCES. 

2. 'Tis often seen 
A swarm of Blessings lights upon our head, 
Happiness courts us in her best Array, 
And our Perverseness poisons all our Bliss. 
Take heed, take heed ; for such die miserable, 

3975. SUN-SET — DEW. 

When the Sun sets the Air doth drizzle Dew. 

3976. INTENTION. 

Whate'er in the intent is meant for Love, 
Has thanks for it's good-meaning. 

3977. LOVE— GRIEF. 

Venus smiles not in a House of Tears. 

3978. animates. 

Xf. In Terrors howsoever new and great, 
Love gives new strength, and strength will help 

3979« GRIEF NATURE — REASON, [afford. 

Nature's Tears are Reason's Merrimentf. 

3980. REVENGE. 

Can Vengeance be pursued farther than Death J. 

* Si vis me Flere, dolendum 
Primum ipsi tibi : tunc tua me infortunia tangent. HOR. 

•j- A pious and philosophic Sentiment, harshly, but 
stoically, expresst. 

\ This was attempted in 1660. " The Courtiers, to give 
proof of their loyalty, and the King, to manifest his filial 
piety, carried their Vengeance beyond the Grave ; and aimed 
at the punishment of those whom a fortunate exit had deli- 
vered from the arm of human power."— MACAUI AY. V. 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. 43S 

3981. DESPAIR. 

Tempt not a desperate Man. 



HAMLET. 

3982. grief moderated by reason". 

© In Sorrow let Discretion fight with Nature^ 
And with such feeling think of the deceas'd, 
As not to lose remembrance of ourselves. 

3983. DUTY— HASTE. 

>£ Haste commends Duty. 

3984. grief — inostentatious. 

2§. The Grief that passes shew resides within* 

3985. secrecy. 

SJ. Firm Prudence will to things of Secrecy 
Give but an Understanding, and no Tongue. 

3986. love. 

4$. Love is too oft 
A Violet in the Youth of primy Nature, 
Forward, not permanent ; sweet, but not lasting; 
The perfume and suppliance of a minute, 
Not more. 

3987. progression — mental and corporeal. 
Nature, when crescent, does not grow alone 
In thewes and bulk : but as this Temple waxes, 
The inward service of the Mind and Soul 
Grows wide withal. 

398S. PRINCE. 

A Prince's Will is not his own-: 
For he, himself, is subject to his Birth. 

Ch. I. speaking of the Parliamentary Order for digging up 
and exposing at Tyburn the Bodies of Cromiuell, Bradshai*, 
/retort, and rride. 

pp2j 



456 SH AKESPERIAN [Hamlet 

3989* ACQUAINTANCE. 

Do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new hatcht unfledged Comrade. 

3<)90. SOUL. 
C& No power of Violence can hurt the Soul, 
Being a thing immortal. 
3991. LOVE. 

X§ There are no wings more swift 
Than are the Thoughts of Love. 

3.992. MOTHER, 

However hurt, let not thy Soul contrive 
Against thy Mother aught :— -leave her toHeavea, 

3993. PURITY. 
Taint not thy Mind. 

3994-. business. 
Every Man hath Business. 

3995. MADNESS. 

2§. Madness has a mixture of Method. 

3996. 

3§. Has often an acuteness in it's replies, of 
which Reason and Sanity could not be so happily 

3997. world. [delivered. 
§ The World's a Prison ; though a goodly one. 

3998. AMBITION. 

The very substance of the ambitious is merely 
the shadow of a Dream. 

3999- stillness — prognostic. 

We often see, against some Storm, 
The bold Winds speechless, and the Orb below 
As hush as Death : anon, the dreadful Thunder 
Doth rend the Region. 

4000. players. 

Players are the Abstract and brief Chronicle 
of the Times. 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. 437 

4001. iuturity. 

The dread of something after Death, 
The undiscover'd Country from whose bourne 
No Traveller returns, puzzles the Will, 
And makes us rather bear the Ills we know, 
Than fly to others which we know not of. 

400:2. prudence e.xcessive. 

The native hue of Resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale Cast of Thought ; 
And Enterprises of great pith and moment 
With this regard their current turn away, 
And lose the name of Action. 

4003. HOXESTY BEAUTY. 

Honesty should admit no Discourse to Beauty. 

4004. 

Beauty cannot have better commerce than with 
Honesty*. 

4005. PARADOX. 

There are many Paradoxes to which Time gives 
Proof. 

400t>, VIRTUE. 

Our old Stock can not be so perfectly changed 
by engrafting or inoculating Virtue upon it, but 
that we shall relish of it. 

4007. CALUMNY. 

Be thou as chaste as Ice, as pure as Snow, 
Thou shalt not escape Calumny. 

4003. TRAVELLING. 

§ Seas and Countries different 
With variable objects may expel 
The settled matter brooding on the Heart, 

* Honesty, Honktete, Honestum, the Just and Becoming 
It :he internal Beauty of Pht: 

P p 3 



*38 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet 

On which the brains still beat and set the Man 
From fashion of himself. 

4009. MADNESS. 

Madness in Great-ones must not unwatcht go. 

4010. MODERATION. 

Use all gently. 

4011. action and elocution. 

Do not saw the Air with your hand too much. 

4012. 

In the very torrent, tempest, and whirlwind of 
your Passion, you must acquire and beget a 
Temperance that may give it smoothness. 

4013. 

§ It offends good Taste and good Sense to the 
Soul to hear a robust, perriwig-pated Fellow tear 
a Passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears 
of those who for the most part are capable of 
nothing but noise and dumb shew. 

4014. acting. 

The Purpose of Playing, it's End both at the 
first and now, was and is, to hold, as it were, the 
Mirror up to Nature : to shew Virtue her Feature, 
Scorn her own Image, and the very Age and Body 
of the Time his Form and Pressure. 

4015. 

Acting over-done, or come tardy off, though it 
makes the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the 
judicious grieve; the censure of which must, in 
every true allowance, over weigh a whole Theatre 
of others. 

4016. 

Let those that play your Clowns speak no more 
than is set down for them : for there be that will - 



Samlet.] APHORISMS. 439 

theirselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren 
spectators to laugh too; though in the mean time 
some necessary question of the Play be then to be 
considered : That's villainous ; and shews a vil- 
lainous Ambition in the Fool that uses it. 

4017. REFORM. 
Reform altogether. 
4018. reason Sf passion \-their equilibrium. 

Blest are those 
WhoseBlood and Judgment are so well commingled 
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she please. 

40 1 9 . determination — changeable. 
What we do determine oft we break, 

4020. 

•4- Purposes 
Of violent birth have poor validity, 
Which now, like fruit unripe, stick to the tree, 
But fall, unripen'd. 

4021. 
Our Thoughts are our's ; their Ends none of our 

4022. friends hip — unreservd. [own. 
H§ He bars the door to his own Liberty who 

denies his Griefs to his Friend. 

4023. severity — verbal. 

© 'Tis better speaking Daggers than using 

4024. officiousness. [them. 
To be too busy is some Danger. 

4025. AGE PASSION REASON. 

§ At Age mature 
The hey-day in the bloGd is tame, is humble, 
And waits upon the Judgment* 



440 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamht* 

i026. vice; — it's self-delusion. 

In a corrupted Heart the Reason 
Is Pander to the Will. 

4027- IRRITATION PATIENCE. 

X § Upon the heat and flame of Irritation 
Sprinkle cool Patience. 

402 8 . evil ;— progressive. 
§ Where bad begins still worse remains behind* 

4029. ,evil turn'd on it's Authors. 

'Tis just to make the Engineer of Mischief 
Hoist with his own Petard*. 

4030. 5HAME-/A. 

Men will not understand what is most fit, 
But oft from shame and a mistaken Pride 
Are as the owner of a foul Disease, 
Who rather than divulge it lets it feed 
Even on the pith of Life. 

4031. SECRECY. 

2§. A Man who can not keep his own Counsel 
cannot keep that of another. 

4032. war. [Peace; 
War is the' Imposthume of much Wealth and 
That breaks within, and shews no cause without 
Why the Man dies. 

4033. prude.vc e — excessive. 

There is a craven scruple 
Of thinking too precisely on the Event, 
Which, rightly quartered, has but one part 

4034. procrastination. [Wisdom, 
3§. If it be wise and just that it be done, 

* Nee Lex est aequior ulla 
r 4§uam Necis Artifices Arte perire sua. OV. 

Met us in Auctorem redit. SENJECA. 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS. 441 

111 fits a Man to say— " This thing's to do ;" 
When he has Cause, with Strength and Means, to 

4035. ambition, [do it. 
4§. A Spirit with Ambition elevated 
Despises the invisible Event, 

Exposing what is mortal and unsure 

To all that Fortune, Death, and Danger dare, 

Even for an Egg-shell *. 

4036. CONSCIENCE. 

5. To a sick Soul,— as Sin's true Nature is,— 
Each Joy seems Prologue to some great amiss. 

4037. guilt; — i^'s jealousy. 

6§. The Jealousy of Guilt 
Oft spills itself in fear of being spilt. 

4038. REASON. 

7$. Divided from his Reason, 
Man is but as a Picture or mere Beast. 

4039. ECONOMY. 

8. Means, well husbanded, 
Go far with little. 

4040. REVENGE. 

9. Revenge, 
Sweep-stake, draws Friend and Foe. 

4041. MEMORY. 

© Who thinks much remembers much. 

4042. justice. 

f Where the Offence is let the great Axe fall ; 
Not glance upon the guiltless. 

4043. necessity. 

2. Necessity sometimes creates a compell'J 
Valour. 

* So DEMOSTHENES of PHILIP. 



442 SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet. 

4044. words ; their inadequateness. 

3. There are some occasions so great and se- 
rious, that the gravest Words are too light for 
the bore of the Matter. 

4045. affection metamorphoses. 

3. Affection 
Will, like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone, 
Turn all things to it's latent quality, 
And leave no semblance foreign to itself. 
Thus blemishes to graces finely change*, 
Dipt in it's potent stream. [virtue. 

4046. slander impotent against wisdom and 
X Slanders against the Wise and good, like 

Arrows, 
Too slightly timber'd and too weakly thrown, 
Reverting to the hostile Bow again, 
Wound not where they are aim'df. 
4047. youth — age — their becoming charaC- 
Youth no less becomes [terxstics. 
The light and careless Livery that it wears, 
Than settled Age his Sables and his Weeds, 
Importing health and graveness. 

4048. grief— -fake. 

2f. False Grief is like the painting of a Sorrow ; 
A Face without the Heart. 

4049. love. 

Love is begun by Time : 
And it is seen, in passages of proof, 

* Amatorem quod Amicae 
Turpia decipiunt coecum Vitia, aut etiam ipsa haec 
Deiectant. HOR. 

f Telum imbelle, sine ictu 
Conjecit, rauco quod protinus sere repulsum 
Et summo clypei nequicquam umbone pependit. VIRG* 



Hamlet.] APHORISMS, 443 

Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. 

There lives within the very flame of Love 

A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it : 

And nothing is at a like goodness still 

Where Passion mixes; — but increas'd to the 

Dies of it's own too much*. [height, 

4050. PROCRASTINATION. 

That we would do, 
We should do at the moment when we would, 
And nothing trust to Time : for this * would" 

changes, 
And has abatements and delays as many 
As there are Tongues, are Hands, are Accidents. 
And then this " should" is like a Spendthrift's 
That hurts by easing. ESigh> 

4051. MURTHER. 

No Place should Murther sanctuarizef. 

4052. OPPORTUNITY. 

Weigh whatConvenience both of Time and Means, 

4053. expedients — trust not all to one. 

A Project 
Should have a back or second that might hold, 
If the first did blast in proof, 

4054. nature. 

Nature her Custom holds, 
Let Shame say what it will. 

* There is in the Comparisons of SHAKESPEARE, 
whether taken from the greatest or lowest subjects, a force 
and happiness of Invention, an originality, a propriety, a 
philosophic Depth and Refinement, a poetic Grace, and 
Happiness of Idea and Expression, truely peculiar. 

f The Privilege of Sanctuary was very much abridged 
before the Birth of our Poet : by Stat. 27 H. VIII. c. 19a 
Anno 1535; and 37. 12. And it was finally abolbht after 
his Death by 21 Ja. I. c. 28. Anno 1623. 



444. SHAKESPERIAN [Hamlet. 

4055. PUNISHMENT. 

§ Punishment does well for those that do ill. 

4056. sensibility impair d by habit. 
The hand of little Employment has the daintier 

4057. emulation o/rank. [Sense. 
The Age is grown so picked, the Toe of the 

Peasant comes so near the Heel of the Courtier, 
that he galls his kybe. 

4058. CONORUITY, 

Sweets to the Sweet. 

4059. nature and necessity. 
Let Hercules himself do what he may, 

The Cat will mew, and Dog will have his Day. 

4060. PATIENCE. 
Strengthen your Patience. 

4061. FEAR MANNERS. 

Fear forgets Manners. 

4062. LIFE. 

3$. Though a Man's Life's no more than to say, 
However short, the Interim is our's. [" One," 

4063. PROPERTY. 

Spacious in the Possession of Dirt. 

4064. excellence — perceiv'd as possesst. 
To know fully the Excellence of another, is to 

be comparable with that other in Excellence. 

4065. conversation— fashionable. 

There are many who only get the tune of the 
time ; an outward habit of encounter ; a kind of 
yesty collection : and do but blow them to their 
Trial, the Bubbles are out. 

4066. steadiness. 

Be constant to your purposes. 



Othello.] APHORISMS. 445 

4067. TREACHERY. 

4§. The treacherous 
Are justly caught in their own Treachery. 

406 S . theory; — PRACTICE. 
5. Theory without Practice is mere Prattle, 



OTHELLO. 

4069. PREFERMENT. 

Preferment goes by Letter and Affection ; 
And not by old Gradation, where each Second 
Stood Heir to the First. 

4070. service— ill requited. 

You shall mark 
Manv a duteous and knee crooking knave 
That, doting on his own obsequious Bondage, 
Wears cut his time, much like his Master's Ass, 
For nought but Provender: and when he's old 

4071. ' • insincere and selfish, [casbier'd. 

Others there are 
Who, trirn'd in Forms and Visages of Duty, 
Keep yet their Hearts attendant on themselves ; 
And throwing but shews of service to their Lords 
Do well thrive by them ; and when they have 

lin'd their Coats, 
Do themselves homage. 

4072. policy— bad. 

6. 'Tis wretched Policy, 
Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain, 
To wake and wage a Danger profitless. 

4073. ACCUSATION EVIDENCE. 

7§. To urge an Accusation is no Proof: 
Without more certain and more overt test 

9 q 



446 SHAKESPERIAN [Othello. 

Than thin slight habits, and poor likelihoods, 
And seemings passion-fram'd prefer in Judgment, 

4074. OPINION. 
Opinion is a Sovereign Mistress of Effects. 

407^. habit. 

8§. The Power of Habit 
Makes of the stern and flinty couch of War 
A thrice driven bed of Down. 

4076, HARDINESS, 

9$. Hardy Spirits 
A natural and prompt alacrity 
In hardness do agnize. 

4077. virtue beautifies the external by the internal* 
10§. Virtue beholds the Visage in the Mind, 

4078. desire. 

*1§. Where mere Desire governs, the food 
which was at first as luscious as Locusts shall 
shortly become as bitter as^Coloo^intida*. 

4079- futurity. 
There are many Events in the Womb of Time. 

4080. confidence — abus'd. 
12 §. 'Tis not impossible, nor rarely found, 
That one man thanks, loves, and rewards another 
For making him egregiously an Ass, 
And practising upon his peace and quiet, 
Even to Madness. 

40SI. pride. 
'Tis Pride that pulls the Country down. 

* The Extract of the Colocynthh, or bitter Gourd. It 
used to be employed, and perhaps still is, in Bookbinders' 
Paste, to preserve Books from Insect* 



Othello.] APHORISMS. 447 

4082. vice ; — virtue — counterpoise. 

Some Men's Vices 
Are to their Virtues a just Equinox; 
The one as long as the other. 

4083. GOOD NATURE. 

Good Nature 
Prizes the Virtue that appears in Men, 
And looks not on their Evils. 

4084. infirmity — human. 

Men are but Men : — the best sometimes forget. 

4085. anger distinguishes not between Friend 

and Foe. 
Men once in rage strike them that wish them best. 

4086. SOLDIER. 

Tis the Soldier's Life 
To have their balmy Slumbers wakt with Strife. 

4087. wine. 

O thou invisible Spirit of Wine, if thou hast 
hast no name to go by, let us call thee Devil ! 

4088. DRUNKENNESS. 

13$. A drunken Man remembers a mass of 
things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but 
nothing wherefore. 

4089. 

That we should with joy, revel, pleasure, ap- 
plause, transform ourselves into Beasts*. 

4090. 

The Devil Drunkenness gives place to the Devil 
Wrath : — one Imperfection shews* a man another 
to make him frankly despise himself. 

* I fear the usual Comparison to Beasts is very unjust to 
them. 

Q q t 



448 SHAKESPERIAN [Othelh. 

4091. WINE. 

Good Wine is a good familiar Creature, if it 
be well us'd. 

40f)2. HYPOCRISY. 
§. Hypocrisy turns Virtue into pitch; 
And out of very Goodness makes the net 
That shall emmesh the best. 

4093. PATIENCE. 

What Wound did ever heal but by degrees. 

4094. character — interprets actions. 
§ Such things as in a close disloyal Knave 
Are tricks of Custom, in a Man that's honest 
Are close Denotements working from the Heart- 
That Passion can not rule. 

409-5. purity human, imperfect. 
§ Where's that Palace into which foul thoughts 
Sometimes intrude not ? Who has a breast so pure 
But some unseemly apprehensions 
Keep Leets and Law-days, and in Session sit 
With Meditations lawful ? 

4096. e v 1 d e n c e — circumstantial. 
There are strong Circumstances 

Which lead directly to the Door of Truth. 

4097. bream. 

Dreams denote often a foregone Conclusion. 

4098. character — learnt by most slowly. 
? Tis not a year or two shews us a Man. 

* Et quoi quisque fere Studio devinchis adhaeret, 
Aut quibus in rebus multum sumus ante morati, 
Atque in qua ratione fuit contenta magis Mens, 
Jn Semnis eadem plerumque videmur obire. 

LUCRET. IV. 958— 61. 



Othello.] APHORISMS. 449 

4099. SYMPATHY. 

Let our finger ache, 
And it endues our other healthful Members 
Even to that sense of pain. 

4100. HUSBANDS WIVES. 

Men are not Gods : 
Nor of them look for such observancy 
As fits the Bridal. 

4101. JEALOUSY. 

X That there's no cause answers not Jealousy : 
The jealous are not jealous for the Cause ; 
But jealous for they are jealous — 'tis a Monster 
Begotten of itself, fed by itself. 

4102. LOVERS — ABSENCE— TIME. 

The hours of absent Lovers 
Are far more tedious than to count the Dial. 

4103. INDISCRETION. 

© They that mean virtuously, yet seek occasion. 
And court the incitements which seduce to 111, 
Kot Heaven their Virtue tempts, but they tempt 

4104. slander. [Heaven. 
§ Many worthy and chaste Dames by Slander 

All guiltless meet reproach. 

4105. CONFIDENCE- W?WfflA f rt. 

O 'tis an 111 indeed 
To lip a wanton in a secure couch, 
And to suppose her chaste. 

4106. INFIDELITY. 

'Tis the Strumpet's Plague 
To beguile many and be beguil'd by one, 

4107. triumph unseasonable. 
Laugh that wins. 



^o lj 



Q q 3 



450 SHAKESPERIAN [Othello. 

4108. virtue — invulnerable. 
A solid Virtue Darts of Accident 
Can neither pierce nor graze. 

4109. LOVE CONSTANCY. 

Unkindness may defeat the Life 
Rather than change the Love. 

4110. HUSBANDS — WIVES. 

Kt It for the most part is the Husband's fault 
JfWivesdofall: — say that they slack their Duties: 
That they estrange themselves for others' Loves : 
That they break out in peevish Jealousies, 
Throwing unjust restraint : or strike their Wives : 
Or scant their former having in despite : 
Women have galls ; with whatsoe'er of Grace, 
They yet have some Revenge. Let Husbands know 
Their Wives have Sense like them : they see and 

smell, 
And have their palates both for sweet and sour. 
If Husbands have Desires, Affections, Frailty, 
Wives have Affections, Frailty, as they have. 
Then let them use them well : or let them know 
The 111 they do, that 111 they teach their Wives. 

4111. EXAMPLE. 

2f- It is the Bent and Privilege of Virtue 
Not to pick bad from bad ; but by bad mend. 
4112-. wickedness hates goodness. 
3§. The Wicked hate the Good: 
For that a daily Beauty in their Lives 
Doth make those uglier. 

4113. fears discovery. 

© The Wicked ever fear Discovery ; 

And hazard all to shun it. 

4114. perjury. 
T&ke heed of Perjury, 



Merchant of APHORISMS. 451 

Venice."\ 

41 15. honour the Shadow of virtue. 

§ Wherefore should Honour outlive Honesty? 

4116. ACCUSATION. 

Nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in Malice. 

4117. jealousy. 

K§ Those who are slowly jealous, are, being 
Perplext in the extreme. [wrought, 

ADDENDA. 

MERCHANT OF VENICE. 

4 1 1 S. murthe R — wider Colour of L a w. 
© Who under colour of the Law itself 
With cruel and perfidious Subtility, 
Maliciously, by indirect Attempt, 
Shall seek the Life of any Citizen, 
Becomes an aggravated Murtherer; 
And owes the Judgment due by Law to such*. 



LEAR. 



4119. ei fe embittered and shortened by irritated 

O Life, Life 1 [Feelings. 

But that thy strange Mutations make us hate 

Thou scarce would'st yield to Age. [thee, 

* See the Case of Macdanhl and Eagan, in FOSTERS 
Treaties of Crown Law. AndComm: L, £* B. IV. Ch'. WN 
§ 16. Ch; H. §2. P. 196. 



452 ADDENDA. 

TROM PLAYS PARTLY WRITTEN 
BY SHAKESPEARE. 



THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN*. 

4120. BENEVOLENCE. 

Hi JL is to Benevolence an Obligation 
If it may stead another in Distress. 

4121. SOLDIER. 

2f. He is deserving of the Name of Soldier 
Who equally can poise Sternness and Pity. 

4122. WISDOM — PROMPTITUDE. 

What the Wise do quickly 
Is not done rashly. 

4123. GENIUS. 

Of Genius the first thought is more 
Than others' labor' d Meditations. 

4124. cause; bad — discouragement. 

What Man 
Thirds his own Worth when that his Action's 

dregg'd 
With Mind assur'd 'tis bad he goes about. 

4125. calamity — it's diff rent Effects. 
Extremity, which sharpens Wits of some, 
Makes others Fools. 

* This Play was ascribed in the Tide-page to Fletcher and 
Shakespeare in 1634, only 16 years after the Death of our 
Poet. — See Capeil's Table of Editions , Vol. I. of his Shakk- 
ipeark, after the Introduction. 



ADDENDA. 453 

4156. DELAY. 

Delay 
Commends to a famishing Hope. 

THIERRY AND THEODORET. 
4127. sorrow. 

Sorrow wanting Form 
Is presst with deeper Matter. 

4128. 
Our mortal Sense is full of fearful Shadows : 
(We were begotten Gods else) but those Fears, 
Feeling but once the Fires of nobler Thoughts, 
Fly, like the Shape of Clouds we form, to nothing. 

THE BLOODY BROTHER. 

4129- EDUC ATIO X — PA REN T S — IN STR UCTO R $ 

— their responsibility. 
Those who when young and apt to any form 
Are given to your instruction and grave ordering, 
'Twill be expected that they should be good, 
Or their bad Manners will be' imputed your's. 

4130. imputed sometimes too far* 

One can not alter Nature. 



£5r I had a powerful reason for adding these few Extracts 
from FLETCHER'S Plays. They are exceedingly in the 
Manner of SHAKESPEARE. In Two of the Three he 
has been expressly, and from early Tradition, affirmed to 
have had a share. And Thierry and Theodoret has 
much of the pathetic, beautiful, and sublime Character of 
his Imagination, and of the dignified Sweetness of his Num- 
bers. FLETCHER was nearly contemporary with our Poet. 
He was born 12 years later (in 3 576), and died 9 years after 
him (in 1625). In the Bloody Brother is that sweet and 
tender Duel y the first Stanza only of which is in Measure 
for Measure. I give it here entire, for it's exquisite and 



454 ADDENDA. 

peculiar Beauty : so delightfully expresst by JACKSON * £ 

Exeter. 

1. 
Take, o take, those Lifts away, 

That so sweetly were forsworn, 
And those Eyes, the break of Day, 

Lights that do mislead the Mom. 
But my Kisses bring again, 
Seats of Love ; but seafd in vain. 

2, 

Hide, o hide, those Hills of Snow, 

Which thy frozen Bosom bears, 
On whose tops the Pinks that blow 

Are of those which April wears* 
But my poor Heart frst set free* , 
Bound in those icy Chains by thee. 

Here is the true rural freshness, sweetness, tenderness, and 
beauty ; the musical flow and turn of the Songs of the Swan. 
of Avon, to whom may be applied the happy Encomium 
wpon VIRGIL— 

" Molie at que facetum 
" SHAKESPERO annuerunt gaudentes Rure Camaens." 
And the Two Noble Kinsmen opens with a floral Ode of 
similar characteristic Elegance. No Poet was more sensible, 
or with truer Taste and happier Expression, to the Charma 
of Flowers , of Beauty, and female Loveliness than SHAKE- 
SPEARE. Internal Beauty, and it's external Image, were 
reveal'd to him in their celestial Perfection. He had an 
Heart, as well as Intellect and Imagination, form'd for such 
divine Visions. In our Poets of the Elizabethan Age, from 
several of whom Mr. L AMBE has publisht most interesting 
Extracts, perhaps many a vein of Shakesperian Ore lies hardly 
separable by any critical Chemistry : And sometimes perhaps 
as undiscernible as the Waves of Alpheus from Arethusa, 
or of Tame from I sis. But at others, the peculiar character 
seems to float like Ether ; ascending by it's purity and it's 
spirit, and distinguish^ by properties absolutely it's own. In 
the extent and justness of his aphoristic Wisdom, and the 
Character of his Poetry, JONSON, in delineating VIRGIL, 

* In the Fol. of Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays, where the 2d Stanza 
occurs, it is, -" But first set." I think, however, the Arrangement as 
here printed is the true one. 



ADDENDA. *55 

seems to have meant at the same time to give a most curious 

and finisht Portrait of SHAKESPEARE— 

" That which he hath writ 
" Is with such Judgment labor'd and distili'd 
** Through all the needful uses of our Life, 
* That could a Man remember but his lines, 
** He should not touch on any serious point 
*■ But he might breathe his spirit out of him*." 
" His Learning savours not the School-like gloss 
4i That most consists in echoing Words and Terms, 
** And soonest wins a Man an empty Name ; 
44 Nor any long or far-fetcht circumstance; 
•• But a direct and analytic Sum 
#< Of all the Worth and first effects of Arts : 
41 And for his Poesy, 'tis so ramm'd with Life, 
" That it shall gather strength of Life with Being, 
44 And live hereafter more admir'd than nowf." 

Thus in his own Days : at present Mr. C APELL does not 

seem very extravagant in his Motto : 

44 Qui Genus humanum Ingenio sujieravit, Isf omnss 
44 Prtstinxit, stellas exortus ut atkerius -So/." 
<c The Race of Mortals he surpasst : — so fade 
44 The Stars, when rises the etherial Sun." 

And here, at length, we close. If to any this Collection 
appears too long, they may console themselves with the 
Brevity of it's distinct parts. At one a Day, these would last 
for eleven Years and thirteen Days t . And by much the greater 
part of them would supply Food ro the Imagination and Intel- 
lect, and Medicine to the I^ca'rt, worthy of occupying no in- 
considerable portion of dvat day, and likely to extend a bene- 

« We know, accordingly, with what frequency and felicity they 
have been quoted in the Speecltes of ERSK1NE. v™« ,- u ^ 

t Jonson's Poetaster, l6ol. H. IV. and V. R. II. KING JOHN, 
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, 
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ROMEO AND JULIET, had all 
been publisht before that Period. ' 

X I had been in some measure anticipated in this thought:-^-' Id 
%' ilieet egi L.iberos instituens meos ut una cum Gracorum LUteris eor- 
trundem Civilem etiam Prudentiam, quin et Pietatis Modestrte, Hones- 
atis, Virtutumque adeo cocteramm Rudimenta una haiirirent. Serio 
cquiuem gauderum si et alii quamplumni luculentum ilium fructum 
cjc opella hac nostra perciperent : Quod et factum iri nullus despera- 
ytrim, siScbolarum Moderators (qttcs habemus in liac Anglic nostra 



456 ADDENDA. 

ficial Influence over many succeeding days, whatever might 
be the powers or situation of the Reader. The Truisms will 
often remind of Truths not the less important for being simple 
and obvious. And the Aggregate is such a Mass of deep, 
discriminative, acute, and comprehensive Observation, as 
could hardly be suppos'd to come within the Life and Powers 
of one Man ; and that Life not a long one. The verbal Li- 
berties (for they are not often more) were almost necessary 
to reduce many of the Remarks to the Aphoristic Forms : 
but even the alteration of a Word is almost invariably cha- 
racteriz'd by it's proper Mark; and greater by correspondent 
Signs. Lipsius, in his Politica, has pursued a similar 
Plan. The Characters which I have us'd have been such as 
with least inconvenience CGuld be supplied in the Country, in 
a sufficient quantity ; and the Extracts being distinguisht by 
the Names of their respective Plays, the Reader may the more 
readily consult the Passage as it stands in the Original. By a 
Mistake which was not discover'd in due time, all the Num- 
bers after 2795 are a Centenary too forward : but this will not 
in the least affect the Accuracy of the Index ; in which uncom- 
mon care has been taken that it might be concise and at the 
same time full. The Index itself will give more than a slight 
hint, upon the mere Inspection, of the Scope and Range of the 
Mind of our truly philosophic Poet: it will shew on what 
Topics his Thoughts most frequently dwelt ; and the Result 
will be found not lesshonorable to his Heart than to his Genius, 
to his Virtues, his Sensibility, his Veneration for the Deity, 
his Benevolence, and his Knowledge of Mankind. There 
might be found many Aphorisms which, had Self Love guided 
me rather than Justice to SHAKESPERE, and the Pleasure 
and Benefit due to others, I might have been tempted to omit. 
These will probably be found not among the least useful.-— 
The Time has been long which this little Collection has 
taken, and the Labor considerable : but I can not think that 
either has been misapplied. C. L. 

Troston Hall ; 12 Aug. 1810. 

permultossane, omni Litteratune genere celeberrimos) pauculas ex his 
Xp£i#£ Discipulis suis quotidie ruminaiulas, dein Memoriae fideliter 
infi^endas, prascipere djgnentur." 

mapletoft YLvpiccl Ao Put 

sen, Placita Principal! a, Lor, 3 : 1717. 



INDEX 



TO 



SHAKESPERIAN APHORISMS. 



The Figures are consecutively arrang'd. A Decenary, Cen- 
tenary, or Millenary once expresst, is understood till the 
next succeeds: thus — 10, 5, 8 — is to be read 10, 15, 18. 
And 200, 30, 40, 4=200, 230, 240, 244. And 1000, 1 10, 
20, 200,350,690— is 1000, 1110,1120, 1200,1350, 1690, 
The Comma indicates smaller intervals ; the Semicolon 
those of Hundreds, if an Hundred has been completed ; 
the full Stop those of Thousands. In Numbers below 1000, 
the . precedes a new Hundred. Figures with a - imply 
continued Numbers : Thus 20-8 imply reference to all the 
Numbers between 20 and 28, with each included. 



ABSENCE,904.1968.2130. 
3077 ; 440. 4102 
Abstinence, 1597. 2290 
Abuse or Misuse, 1994. 2041. 

3095 
Accidents, 627 
Accommodation, 1098 
Accoinplishments,1279,835 
Account, 1957 
Acquaintance, 2678. 3989 
Accusation, 216-8, 75. 1630. 

3845. 4073; 116 

Self; 2133. 990 

Actions (v. Deeds) 3837 



r0rtftor/W,186.4Oll,2 

Action -< Drcmatic^. 401 4-6 

(.Political, 3155; 583 

Action (generally taken) 3166; 

940 
Actor, 47 
Activity, 1201, 12 
Adoption, 771 
Advancement, 242. 3253 
Adversity, 190, 1. 279. SOS. 

421.630. 3668,73 
Advice, 623. 1 853. 2676, 7 1 7, 

741, 899. 3023, 4; 372; 9*0 
Adroitness, 2363 
r 



INDEX. 



Adulation, 688. 2728 
Adultery (v. Infidelity) 3914 
Affectation, 278; 751 ; 1066, 

72; 206. 2284; 601,83,8; 

747 
Affection, 415. 648. 1527, 767, 

852.2103,89. 232,88; 465; 

2778; 999; 3047; 241; 9; 

441 ; 69. 4045 
Affliction, 514, 18. 731-33-5. 

1593. 2188. 970. 3016; 570 
Agreeableness, 1025 
Age fv. Youth) 193.414; 522; 

982.1118. 2095; 502; 610; 

995,9.3025; 121,71,5-8; 

246; 410,57. 4025,47; 119 
Air, 990 
Alertness, 2572 
Alloy, 1905 

Alliance, 1085. 2658, 927 
Alternation (w. Day, Night ; 

Labour, Rest;) 435, 6 
Ambassador, 2179 
Ambition, 260. 458. 1005, 

528. 626. 828. 2097, 128, 9, 

781,906.3051; 138.3347; 

591 ; 637 ; 998 
Amendment, 572. 1711. 2748 
Amity, 2237. 930 
Amusement, 2445 
Anamorphosis (v. Ofitics) 41 9 
Anarchy, 433. 3602 
Anger, 210. 808. 1059. 132. 

683. 2073, 216, 49, 926; 

91; 465. 3613; 894; 956. 

4085 
Analogy, 3332 
Animal, 1661 

Animation; Suspended ; 1816 
Anticipation, 2206 . 
Anxiety, 1620. 3229 
Apoplexy, 3165 



Appearance, 245. 666* 1252 ; 

681; 807. 2055; 443; 520 j 

755. 3291 ; 354 
Appetite, 3200 
Apostacy, 173 
Apprehension, 50; 
Arms, 3895 
Arrogance, 179 
Art, 662. 1808 
Arts and Sciences, 2566 
Artifice, 2034 
Assimilation, 3238 
Association, 2150 ; 955 
Assurance, 3186 
Astrology, 3875 
Attachment, 2556 
Attention, 2744; 757 
Atrophy, 3030 
Audacity, 1244. 576 
Authority, 531,40, 74. 982, 

3603; 853 
Avarice, 521. 1518. 886. 904. 

[956 

B. 
BABBLERS, 352 
Banishment (v. Exile) 3009; 
Beasts, 661. 1915 
Bees, 2111. 3270 
Beauty (<v. Love ; Goodness ; 

Harmony) 31, 933, 1583, 9, 

765,857,71.934,46,7,52, 

4. 2039; 148; 247; 52; 

340 ; 630 ; 954. 3395. 4003, 

4. 

mere external, 1989 



Beetle (v. Animal; Pain , Death 3 

Cruelty) 602. 3841 
Beggars, 3907 
Beggary, 3450 

ing, 1805 

Beginning, 1677. 2051 
Belief, 2699 



INDEX. 



Hi 



Benediction, 2782 
Beneficence, 3685 ; 705 
Benevolence •, 614. 702. 2225: 
399;400; 3664,77,85,9.4120 
Bigotry, SI 25 
Birds, 3843 
Birth, 653. 1884 
Bishops (v. Churchmen) 3211 
Blame (indiscriminate J 1110 
Blandishments, 2046 
Blemishes, 3667, 70 
Blindnessfw/^/) 1638.2372. 
Blow, 1077. 3648 
Bluntness ; affected, 3872 
Blushes, 539. 3790 
Bluster (v* Boasting, Bragging, 

Courage, false) 3304 
Boasters, 835. 2912 

ing, 2896. 3300; 330 

Body, 3598 

Borrowing, 20 

Boys, 1042 

Bragging {v. Boasting) 3115 

Brevity, 38. 3525 

Bribes, 1001 

Britain (v. England) 1310, 1 

Brow (v. Physiognomy) 3417 

Buffoonery, 2366. 460. 3806 

Business, 2444 ; 742. S994 

Butterfly, 3629 

C. 

CADUCITY, 2470 

Calamity, 139. 1 145,543, 987. 
2631.3689; 158. 679; 767, 
86; 919,51.4124 

Calumny /V Defamation, Slan- 
der) 5. 459. 610, 56. 2010. 
S680;7. 4007 

Caprice (v. Whim) 579 

Captain, 3198 

— — -iousnesg, 3548 ; 643 

R 



Care (v. Joy) 6. 438. 1584, 

637. 3964 

fulness, 1273 

Cares, 3838 

Caricature, 1421 

Casuistry (v. Vice) 1920. 3086 

Catching, 2656 

Cause, theFiiisr^.GoD)781 

final, 3561 

Cause (v. Effects) 2351.3265; 

869 
— political or forensic, 

3216,7; 409.4123 
Caution, 6. 476. 2042, 213 
Celerity, 333. 1114, 33. 2745, 

95. 3129; 277; 421 ; 539 
Censoriousness, 2157. 3572 
Censure, 96. 221. 562. 1027* 

2706, 7. 3443 ; 636 
Ceremony, 998. 1431, 90, 

1575; 609. 2730,42 
Certainty, 1307 
Change, 36. 922. 1545, 694. 

2258 ; 437. 3629 ; 74 
Moral, 1282 



Chapmen (v. Trade) 1267 
Character, 721. 1098. 4094, 8 
Rules for discovering^ 



967. 4094 
Charge (v. Office) 814 
Charity, 101. 277. 2495; 782 
Chastity, 1832, 3, 903. S797 
Chearfulness, 1599. 2734 
Check, 556. 1155,6 
Cheek, 731. 1945.3803 
Child (v. Education, Ingrati- 
tude) 747. 1365, 70; 973. 
2266. 3512, 32, 45 
Children Cv. Education; Pa* 
rents) 63. 684, 95. 767c 
1468. 2368 ; 432 ; 599 ; 6Q2, 
3068; 545; 898 

r 2 



INDEX. 



Childhood, 728. 2185; 771 
Chivalry, 1942,3. 2115 
Choice, 2369; 429 
Christians (if. War) 3392 
Churchmen, 248, 76. 1617 
Circumspection, 481. 502 
Circumstances, 3974 
City (v. People) 175 
Cities (great and luxurious) 

1315; 1798 
Claims, 3297 
Clamour, 169 
Clemency, false (v. Mercy) 

1938. 3478 
Clergy, 3368 
Clients, 2171 
Climate, 3453 
Climax, 3003 
Clown (v. Action dramatic) 

4016 
Coalition, 3622 
Collision, 167. 1032 
Colour (*>. Paint) 2000 ; 60 
Comet, 1837 
Comfort, 269; 308, 10, 21; 

424, 90. 2212, 28 
Commands, 1352; 78 
Commander, 1166.3154,219 
Commerce {vide Trade) 2404, 

3049 
Commodity (v. Conveniences 

Selfishness) 295 
Commendation, Self; 2286 
Communications, Evil; 1944 
i i ' — cativeness, 1858 
Companions, 2459 
Company (v. Society) 900. 

3120; 88; 252-4 
Comparison, 138.1575.3740; 

904 
Compassion (v. Pity) 102, 83. 

3185. 962 



Compensation, 3605 
Complaint, 184. 453. 1376; 

446 
Complexion, 2306 ; 428 
Complaisance (v. Compliance) 
Compliance, 2195 
Compliment, 2509 
Composition, 41 
Compulsion, 2064. 3116; 215 
Concealment, 270 
Conceit, Self; 2261 
Conciseness, 38 
Condolence, 1986 
Conduct, 2629 
Confidence, 222,30. 389. 41 I , 

2. 759. 836. 905, 64. 1897. 

2231; 379; 617, 44. 3044; 

378; 427; 935. 4080; 105 
Conflict, 293 
Congruity, 4058 
Connivance, 708 
Conquest, 3307 

Self; 2288 

Conscience, 60. 105, 11. 256. 

1143.2067; 702 } 31 ; 915, 

24. 3012; 122; 256 ; 523, 

6,51; 724. 4036 
Consent, 1173 
Consistency, 26. 46. 344 
Consolation, 675. 2188 ; 633 
Conspiracy, 837. 979, 87. 

3080 
Constancy, 689. 731. 1268 ; 

976.2258.3338; 62.4108 
Constraint, 3750 
Contagion, 2269 
Content, 244. 1305; 519 
Contempt, 1561, 748 
Contention, 491 
Contest, 3506 
Contingencies, 3329 
i Continence, 3916 



INDEX. 



vft 



disposition (v. Change) 1545; 

701. S718 
Disqualifying of ourselves (y, 

Affectation) 902. 2121 
- of others ,1071 

Dissension, 197. 331. 1616. 

3502; 601, 21, 65 
Dissimulation, 3430 
Dissipation, 31 72 ; 792 
Distance, 3661 
Distraction 1 1285. 3792 
Distortion, Anamorphosis (y. 

Optics) 
Distress (v. Benevolence) 118. 

338. 447. 1733. 2938. 3625. 
Distrust, 757. 1674. 2938. 

3378 ; 720 
Disturbance domestic, 2218 
Diversion wiscalfd, 2482 
Divinity (v. Theology) 1712 
" ■ ■' ■ ° ■ ■ Scholastic (v. Quibbles) 
Doctrine, 3369 
Dog, 322. 1639. 2656. 3754 
Dotage, 3656 
Dove, 1662; 94 
Double-meaning, or Duplicity , 

29. 133. 940. 1522. 2708 
Doubt, 3195 
Dower, 3484 
Drama (v. Action) 42, 6. 1921. 

2367. 3313 
Dreams, 677. 1423.3537.4097 
Dress, 17. 3915 
Drones, 3270 ; 444 
Drunkenness, 2333 ; 423 ; 636. 

4088 
Duelling, 3730 
Dullness apparent, 969. 2682 
Duplicity {v. Double-meaning) 
Duty (y. Danger, Activity) 

415.914,7,27.2588.3270; 

£46 ; 983 



Duty not to he overtasit, 3646 
Duties Public, 62. 1036 ; 355 

Am — Private and Public, 368 

— — Parental, 694, 5 

— *— Filial (v. Children)*!*!. 

3891 
— Conjugal (y. Husband^ 

Wife) 
{ ■■ '■' of indefinite Obligation^ 

2637 



E. 

EAGLE, 3794; 841 

Ear (v. Love, Curiosity, Ma- 
lignity) 2147 ; 592. 3288; 
710, 81 ; 968 

Earth (v. Body) 593. 1981. 
3007: 804,72; 963 

Ease (y. Happiness^ Labour) 
3057 

Eating, 2624 

Ebrietas, 2776 

Economy, 4039 

Education, 583. 935. 1820. 
2063; 113; 266; 479; 569, 
70;966.3081;791. 4129,30 

Effect, 314. 1357 ; 921. 3922 

Election, 3592, 3 

Elegance, 690 

Elephant, 1200 

Elevation external, 3520 

Elocution, 4011 

Eloquence(i/. Orator y Language, 
Sty le, Action, Elocution) 764. 
2032 ; 537 

Eminence, 1907 

Emotion, 1533, 51. 2751 

Employment-non {y. Nan* 
empdoy?nent) 

Empyrics, 779 

Emulation, 1230, 55 
... ^ of Rank, 4057 



INDEX. 



Encouragement, 3285 

End, 393. 840. 3187; 318; 

461; 561; 632; 973 
Enemy (v. Detractien) 243. 

1168. 2693; 959; 67, 89. 

3040; 316; 621, 54; 772 
Energy (y. Love, Mind, God) 

2125; 677; 760. 3787 
England, 358, 9. 3279 ; 492, 3 

ishman, 226 

Enmity, 1055. 3494 

Ennui, 2960 

Enterprize, 3112, 52; 853. 

4002 
Entreaty, 375 
Envy, 252, 74. 1111; 821; 

993. 2487, 8; 951. 3008; 

174; 385; 423; 563, 8 
Epilogue, 1739,40 ' 
Equality, 697. 756 

■ Political, 3069 
Equanimity, 49. 89. 785. 201 1 
Equilibrium (y. Counterpoise, 

Reason, Passion) 4018 

Equivocation^ 294.2774.3965 

Error, 1016, 7 ; 144, 6. 2174 ; 
336; 546. 3192 

Esteem, 755 

i Self, 213 

Estimation, 198, 9. 228. 798 

"•■ — p- Popular (y. Pq/iut 

larity) 

Eternity, 1891. 2004 

Ethics, 2561 

Etymology, 2672 

Events, 1150. 3676 

Evidence, 720. 2222 

i" Internal (y. Presump- 

tion) 

■ External (y. Testi- 
mony) 2390. 4073, 96 (v. 
Accusation) 



Evil (y. Good, Necessity) 315, 
6. 432. 537. 1426 ; 608, 10, 
36; 875. 2007; 208; 788; 
903. 3366; 447. 4028, 9 

Examination Self, 562 

Example, 11. 570. 1880,2. 
3087,97; 314.4111 

Excellence, 1062 ; 179 ; 303; 
837. 2264, 7; 311; 677. 
3339. 4064 

(v. Beauty, Modesty, 



Temper, Wisdom, Virtue^ 

Piety) 2439 
Exceptions, 1071 
Excess, 532. 1044, 61. 3028, 

84 
Excuse, 2117, 66 
Execrations (y. Curses) 3438 
Execution (v. Performance) 

3815 
Executions {y. Judge) 3850 
Exertion, 753. 914, 27. 2626 
Exigence (y. War) 3038 
Exile (v. Banis/iment) 386. 434. 

1434. 2434. 3009, 10, 1,3,8 
Expectation, 792. 1213 ; 518. 

2491. 3051, 2; 180; 802 
Expedients, 4053 
Expence, 2411 
Experience, 91 1.1213,9; 397; 

686; 754, 89; 2159; 321; 

534. 3032 ; 457 ; 935 
Expostulation, 1271 
Externals, 3137; 327 
Extravagance, 3179 
Extremes, 353 
Exultation, 3467 
Eye, 1104; 292, 3. 2006, 16, 

29; 187; 364; 639; 914, 

64. 3288; 683; 744,81,2; 

951, 66 



INDEX. 



Contrast, 362. 470. 853-5. 
10S4, 174; 911 

Contradiction {v. Inconsistency) 

1913. 3614 
Contraries, 1372 
Convenience, 700 
Conversation, 425. 2245 ; 301 , 

53 ; 575. 3166 
Conviction, 671 
Conviviality, 2595 
Coquetry, 2515 
Correction, 606. 3074 

ness, 325 
Coronets, 267 

Corrupter, 2053 3092; 173 
Corruption, 224. 599. 670. 789. 

972.2053; 182; 270; 571 ; 

976. 3070 ; 190; 202; 576 ; 

745 
Counsel, 2419. 3023, 5 
Counsellors in Lata, 2171 
Countenance (v. Physiognomy) 

1564 
Counteraction, 3953 
Counterfeits (<v. Hy/iocrisy) 

302. 2118 
Counterpoise (v. Character) 

4082 
Country ; as distinguisht from 

Court or Town, 1314. 2503 
Country, 144, 6. 3284; 584 ; 

615, 50 
Courage, 146, 51. 292. 346, 

7,71.471.992.1662.2281; 

61 9; 779,80. 3005; 201, 94; 

357; 505, 55 

False, 46. 107. 1656 

Courts, 682. 1078, 975. 2115; 

503. 3236 ; 781 
Courtesy, 19. 2084. 3127 
Courtiers, 3697. 4057 



Covetousness (v. Avarice) 

1886. 3178 
Cowardice, 991. 1266; 327, 

36; 692; 919.2077. 3114, 

32; 201, 94; 647 
Cowards, 1023. 3857 
Coxcomb, 804 
Craft, 601. 1678 
Credulity, 820, 2. 1321.2048; 

68, 146; 617. 3653 
Crime, 1. Ill, 6; 572, 98. 

1322,5; 1540; 772. 2009, 

102. 3000,5.1, 87; 771 
Criminals (v. Guilt) 108. 951 
Crisis, 313. 1117 
Crosses, or Vexation, 131 
Cruelty, 103. 330. 678. 1615; 

717. 2472. 3286 
Cuckoo, 1083. 3139; 887 
Cultivation, 1451 
Cunning, 834. 1359 
Curiosity, 2076. 3533 
Curses (<v. Execrations) 119. 

3521 * 
Custom, 23. 141 ; 64. 1760. 

3340 ; 635. 4054 
Cypher, 1605. 2304 



\\ r 



D. 

DANCING, 2350 

Danger, 445. 2040, 89 ; 397 ; 

440; 724; 969, 74, SO. 

3145,94; 323 
Darkness (v. Night) 1894 
Day, 435. 37ffe 
Dead (the), 496. 3143; 391; 
Deafness Moral {v. Obstinacy) 

3164 
Death (if. Patriotism) 2, 4 f 

93. 135,6. 202.309,28, 9; 

54,5; 91,3.402,7,8, 10, 

40, 1. 587,27.602,21, 2 ; 



INDEX. 



839. 993, 6. 1137; 531; 

#49; 775; 909. 2089; 184; 

276; 420; 34, 74, 94, 7; 

952,35.3036,60; 154; 204, 

81,9; 364, 99; 414, 33, 4, 

46; 523,81; 661; 775, 7; 

861 ; 942, 70, 3 
Death, Moral, 514,5, 95, 40. 

not the zvorst of Evils^ 888. 

3289; 331 
Debasement, 24 
Debt, 2528. 3185 

■ ors, 3255 

Decay; 2506 

Deceit (v. Flattery) 284. 884 

- Self, 76. 3763 

Deeds (y. Actions) 2768. 3346; 

420; 567; 648; 828, 37 
Defamation (i/. Slander) 2259; 

481 
Defects, 153. 929 
Defence of our Country (y. 

Country) 144, 6 
Defenceless (the) 934 
DEITY (y. GOD) 1824 
Belay, 1619.2653.3404; 540, 

3. 4126 
Deliberation: 3298 
Delicacy, 68 
Delusion, 2972 
Dependance, 3859 
Derangement Mental, 636. 

2918 
Derision, 2389 
Desert, 1249; 470, I. 3222 

ion, 3736 

•i ; — Self 1125; 227 

Desire, 1849, 93. 2014; jS12. 

4078 
;... », ^ ... w of leading (y. Ambition) 

981 



Desire, laudable, 2677 
Desolation (y* War) 3301 
Despair, 486. 1930. 2769, 85. 

3573; 676; 924,81 
Despondency {y. Despair) 2787 
Despotism (y. Tyranny) 2154 
Detection, 1. 824. 2089 
Determination, 4019-21 
Detraction, 220, 43. 270$, 

3142; 560 
Devotion, 1634 
Dial, 2027 

Diffidence, 2442 ; 719 
Difficulty, 626, 34 
Digestion, 1563 
Dignity (y. Man) 40 
a ■ ■ of Station, 3102 
Disappointment, 1155 
Discernment, 1306 
Discipline (y. War) 3553 
Disclosure, 2725 
Discomfort, 2755 
Discontent, 1519; 36; 645; 

963. 2151 ;241. 3476 
Discord (v. Parties) 3374; 84, 

7; 403; 601, 41 
Discourse fcv. Conversation) 425 
Discoveries, 2283 ; 791 
Discretion (v. Reason, Passion^ 

Anger, Sorro-zc) 12. 487. 

1102. 3982 
Discrimination, 172 
Disease (y. Sickness) 313.2576* 

3166 
Disgrace, a U-s Evil than 

Crime, 2009 ; 33 
Disguise, 324. 2133 ;-647 
Disgust, 4673 
Dishonesty, 2713; 938 
Dishonor,'l827, S33k89;6§$ 
Dislike, 1723 i ~ r 

Disorder, 34£^ 



INDEX. 



Face (vide Physiognomy) 655. 

935. 3417,8 
Facility, 2505 
Fact, i221 

ion, 3382 

False (v. Falsehood) 57, 9, 385. 

490. 929. 1281 ; 325, 59 
Fame (v. Virtue) 58. 132. 

1100, 1; 242; 474; 591. 

2264; 649; 3388; 636; 819 
Family, 3389 
Famine (v. Death) 1326 
Fancy, 856. 2433, 57; 787 
Farewell, 1276. 3820 
Fashion, 225, 6. 395. 2226, 7. 

3317 
test (v. Feast) 3627; 716 

ing, 1333. 3627 

Father (v. Children) 694, 5. 

1973. 2368. 3898 
Fatigue, 2087 
Fault, 181.326,7. 1209,78; 

918,20, 2478; 589; 702; 

917. 3316; 699; 813, 74 
Favoritism, 513. 1572 ; 975 
— es, 2260 
Fear (v. Death, Tyranny, Love) 

51.287,98.301. 417,44-6, 

45, 95. 541 . 640. 957. 1055, 

68; 215-8; 315, 6, 42; 

523, 6, 32, 42; 855, 79. 

2384,5; 617,47; 772; 897; 

965, 71. 3082; 101 ; 394; 

424, 45, 62; 538; 657, 71. 

4061 
Feast, 1980. 2735. 3516, 38 ; 

627, 98; 702 
Feeling, 3972 
Fiction, 2700 

Fidelity, 901 . 1 1 20 ; 274, 2939 
Field-sporti, 2325 



Fire (v. Prevention) 871.961. 

2941. 3504 
Firmness (v. Fortitude, Virtue) 

26. 3949 
Fitness, 174. 2709 
Flattery (v. Folly) 32. 1 62. 280. 

402, 75. 936, 54, 85, 6. 

1246 ; 373 ; 485-7 ; 790, 1 ; 

830, 47 ; 985. 2323 ; 668, 

9, 82, 9; 706, 7. 3130; 310, 

43; 585; 710,23; 896, 7; 

918 
Flower (v. Beauty) 1991.2630 
Foe (v. Enemy) 1058. S478 
Folly (v. Affectation, Revengc y 

Vice, Boasting, Riches) 211. 

749.968.1023,96, 7; 600. 

2077; 157-9; 282 ; S56-9 ; 

422, 60, 99 ; 547 ; 628,47, 

57, 69, 86, 8; 728; 896. 

3234; 312; 749, 99; 821 
Forbearance, 2047 ; 199 ; 528 
Force (v. Violence) 1013; 165, 

9, 16. 2144; 501; 978. 

3670 ; 750 ; 897 
Force (v. Strength) 151. 1165. 
Foresight, 1256 [3750 

Forethought, 2916 
Forgiveness, 262. 365. 672. 

849. 1413. 2102. S490 
Fortitude, 159. 258. 345, 8, 

69. 410. 807. 1007; 119, 

21, 38. 2058, 61; 464; 911, 

75- 3016, 59, 60, 73 ; 376; 

449, 60; 510; 617, 49; 

862; 943. 
Fortune(i/./o//y, Success, Wn- 

dom, Fortitude) 519. 714. 

938. 1120,58; 291; 351 ; 

447 ; 667. 2942. 3107 ; 496; 

500; 618; 85-7; 739,40, 

8 ; 829,f47. 4035 



INDEX. 



Foundation (v. War) 3181 

Fox, 1641, 78. 2146 

Frailty, 651 

France, 3906 

Fraud, 70. 1521; 916. 3095 

Friendship 16. 78. 161, 97. 
271. 311. 411. 647. 724, 
48. 806, 63, 78. 916, SO. 
1003; 197; 250; 484,92; 
£00,67 ;621, 2; 984.2412, 
26; 507,42.3045; 160,1; 
284; 372; 644, 5, 94; 712, 
54, 80 ; 824. 4022, 8 

J false, 59. 421. 

942,8. 1495, 6; 516. 2155, 

6. 3076; 494 ; 704, 34, 6, 

7, 56, 8 
■ Political, 3654, 7 



Frenzy (v. Madness, Distrac~ 
Hon) £216; 559; 6.88 

Frequency (y. Pleasure) 

Fretfulness (v. Age, Sickness) 
414 

Frown, 1422. 3040 

Fruit, 1718 

Fuel (v. Fire) 961 

Fury, 369 

Foturity, 30. 311. 628. 1015, 
2655; 760. 4001,79 



Gain, 500. 604. 830 
Gale (v. Prognostics) 2055 
Garrulity, 3533 
Garter, the Order of, 3380 
General (v. War) 1164, 6. 
& 3315 

Generosity,45.1450, 3719,21 
Genius {v. Poet, Imagination, 

Sensibility, Love) 690. 705. 
8r 972. 1134; 978.2335; 950, 

3%58. 4122, 3 



Gentleman, 722, 61 

ility, 653. 2479 

leness, 451. 941. 2071 ; 

501 
Gesture^. Physiognomy) 2751 
Gifts, 45. 775. 918. 1489. 

2045; 740 

for Talents bestowed,3l*74 

Gloom (v. Melancholy) 2737 
Glory (y. Fame, Virtue, Crime, 

Ambition, Penoivn) 1595 ; 

761, 2; 992. 2475,6. 3651; 

819 
adventitious, 3290, 6 ; 347 ; 

707; 818 
Gluttony, 2291 
GOD, 112. 781. 2924. 3290 
— ■ our sole Master, 809 

■ his Goodness, 1632. 3058 

■■ ' his Providence^ 91, 2 
■ his Omniscience ', 1634 % 

764 
1 '■'- his Omnipotence, 12I» 

3276, 90 ; 321 ; 464 
*~ his Justice, 113, 5, 42. 

378. 2924. 3518 

his Mercy, 552, 3-8, 9 

*— — Trust in him, 134. 389. 

3411, 51 
Gratitude to him, 1633. 

3334 
— h— Resignation, 3473 
Goddess, 2334 
Gold, 1395 ; 513 ; 2443 ; 942. 

3742, 5 
Good (v. Education) 432. 628, 

52. 702. 953. 1426; 716, 

59. 3081 
Good-men, 1002, 18, 34 ; 796 ; 

822; 985. 2908 



INDEX. 



Goodness (v. Good-men) 428. 

75,84.600,3,93. 764, 78, 

96. 1374, 92; 716,59,65; 

985, 90. 2600; 903, 4. 

3072; 568 
• Female, 1657, 8 

Good-nature (y. Envy) 568. 

3627. 4083 
— — Public (y. Patriotism) 

3393; 405; 615 

will, 1072 

comparative , 1604 

— — may be extracted, 1 608 

unexpected, 2083 

— — misconceived, 2903 
Goose, 2334 
Grace, 427. 530 

s, 1062 ; 730. 3398 

for Favor, 3902 

■ ■ for Kindness, 1679 

— for Ornament, 3863 

Gracefulness, 1069 
Grandeur, 231. 1136. 2671; 

968 
Gratitude (iu God) 160. 357, 

846. 1818.2099,3626; 934 
Grave, 1475. 3474 
Gravity, 2358 ; 408. 3171 

affected, 1703. 2408, 9 

Great Men, nominally , 1085, 

9. 2398 
— — ness (v. Goodness) 439. 

610,25.723,6S.975. 11S6; 

237. 2673; 728. 3072; 134; 

346; 660,6; 793, 4; 863 
Grief {y. Scrroiv, Care) 3. 

140, 1, 93. 235. 338, 77, 

&0-3. 418-20.657, 73.713, 

25, 37, 42, 3. 816. 1044 ; 

108, 40; 272; 347, 88; 

415; 601, 51, 70, 96 ; 823, 

4:.. 6,89; 910, 1,3,4, 22, 



35-7, 41. 2066; 268, 74, 
8, 9; 601 ; 911,55. 3002, 
62; 165; 407; 789; 803; 
953, 77, 9,84. 4022,48 

Grossness, 2678 

Guests, 694. 1914 

Guide, 2784 

Guilt, 9. 42. 546\ 620. 813, 
6. 943, a 1353; 770-S ; 
885, 90, 1 ; 900,20, 90, 1, 
1552. 2050, 67, 89; 694 ^ 
721, 63. 3055; 289; 459* 
4037 

Gun, 343$ 



H. 
HABIT, 74. 939, 77. 122%. 

2522; 632. 3227; 439,8:2; 

635. 4075 
Hairs, Gray (9. Age) 3171 
Hand (9. Heart) 3269 ; 370 
Happiness (v. Content, Virtue, 

Love, Peace) 241. 732. 882, 

1569. 2254. 3228; 501 ; 

738 ; 974 

domestic, 953 

Hardihood, 

iness, 1323. 4076 

ness, 3449 

ship f y. Fortitude) 1328 

Harlot, 29. 3703 

Harmosry (v. Music) 1570; 

721,2; 960 
Haste (v. Celerity, Duty, Pasti- 
ness) 1673. 39S3 
Hate (v. Discord, Love, Phy« 

s-iogno-my) 442.2152; 393; 

452 y 66. 3373; 417; 517; 

623, 8 
Hatred (y. Hate) 
Health (v. Temperance, Change). 

1539. 2217. 3764' 



INDEX. 



Hearer, 1603. 3844 

Heart (y. Woman, Love, Fide-* 

lity) 632, 55, 72, 6. 909, 10, 

2. 1274, 82; 610, 42, 3; 

845, 59; 916. 2020, 56; 

124, 88; 210, 25; 529; 

€65; 734,19; 921. 3004, 

37; 127, 96; 283, 339, 

43, 63; 468; 530; 619 ; 826, 

34; 908, 15 
Heat (pi. Anger) 3456 
Heaven (v. God, Benediction, 

Government, Piety ; - Causes 

fnal;— first) 77. 143. 246. 

374, 89. 429, 37, 9. 554, 

93. 628, 43., 711, 82. 1361 ; 

555; 931,5. 3061; 270> 8 ; 

344, 90, 5; 406,64; 561; 

630; 858; 926 
Heaviness (v. Amusement) 2445 
History, 3273 
Homage, 1237 
Home, 2215. 3275 
Honesty (v. Honor) 205, 63. 

708. 818. 1169, 70; 926", 

7.2425; 717, 46. 996, 7. 

3147; 237; 484; 690-2. 

4003,4 
Honor (v. Familij , Virtue) 1 68, 

85, 7. 205, 42. 367, 72. 499. 

645, 54. 798, 9. 800. 956. 

1090 ; 248; 819. 2723, 66 ; 

989, 96. 3147; 240; 390; 

418; 631; 863, 95. 4113 

National, 3814 

■ s, 257, 88. 799. 2756* 

3386; 519 
Hood, 666 
Hope, 148. 410, 16, 22, 3. 

501, 81,6. 726, 98. 1152; 

753; 851, 62, 84. 2054,5: 

551 ;619; 913. 3136; 892 



Horror, 1646 

Horse, 639. 3126; 210 

Hospitality (v. House) 2041 % 

200. 3197 
Host (v. Guests) 1914 
Hours {v. Time) 3474 
Honey, 3128 

House, 3126, 81; 301; 971 
Human Nature (v. Nature) 
Humanity, 3752 ; 848 
Humility, 238. 429 ; 73. 751. 

976. 2603 
Humor (v. Whim, Caprice^ 

Passion or Prejudice) 1988 
Hunger, 3577,8; 662 
Husband (y. Wife) 842. 2201 f 

20; 540, 1. 4100, 10 
Hymns, 2987 
Hypocrisy, 27, 8. 109. 569, 

71.601,9,17,35.909.1460; 

534, 5, 77 ; 768 ; 829 ; 933. 

2060; 341 ; 786. 3063; 188; 

528. 4092 



I. 

IDEA {Association) 2511 

Identity, 3149 

Idiocy," 3931 

Idleness, 83. 860. 1028, 9,43; 

802. 3854 
Ignominy (y. Shame, Infamy) 
Ignorance (i>. Learning, Pride) 

666. 777. 1094 ; 258-62. 

705. 3454; 594; 616, 71 

of Self, 2214 

111 (v. Evil) 93. 498. 570. 

2185 

— Nature, 2312, 3 

— News (v. News} 
Illiberality, 2109 

Illness (v. D'tstasfy Sickness) 
3900 



INDEX. 



iui 



Imagination, S76. 472. 505. 

1523; 698,9. 2212; 497; 

679. 3925 
Imitation (v. Example) 225. 

2246. 3027 ; 638 

— Dramatic, 3313 

Immaturity, 1042 
Immortality, 3191 
Immutability, 633 
Impartiality (%>. God, Truth) 

3053 
Impatience, 338,9. 405. 1510; 

912,14, 24. 2451. S487 
Imperfection ; Human (v. 

Frailty) 585 
Impertinence (i>. Irrelevancy) 

3931 
Implacability, 3623 
Importance, 1206 
Impossibility, 2070 ; 507 
Imposture (v. Flattery) 1714. 

2668 
Impression, 889 
Improbability(?/.Z>rtfwm) 2700 
Improvement, 3514 
Improvidence, 403 
Imprudence, 1494. 3544 ; 878 
Impudence {y. Folly; Vice) 

669, 70. 829. 2203 
Impunity, 598 
Imputation, 930 
Inadvertence, 2248. 
Inattention, 426. 3225 
Inclination, 2334; 566 
Incongruity, 637 
Inconsiderableness, 3952 
Inconstancy, 885. 949. 1045, 

70;- 183. 2017 
Incontinence, 567 
Increase, 1843 

Independence, 350. 1988. 3948 
Indication, 539 

S 



Indigence, 1502, 3. 4103 
Indiscretion, 2411. 3825 
Indulgence, 1668. 2094 
Indulgences ; Papal, 2935 
Industry, 911. 1805; 2094; 

425. 3064; 510 
Inequality, 549. 1135; 391; 

709. 2629 
Inexperience, 820 
Infection ; Moral, 620 
Infidelity, 2631. 4106 

1 — Conjugal, 842 
Infirmity, 2094 ; 720. 4084 
Inflexibility, 1200 
Influence Moral, 1832 
Ingenuousness (<u. Honour) 

654 
Ingratitude, 1365; 501, 72, 

88. 3083; 139; 426; 887; 

910, 11 
Inhumanity, 2524 
Injury, 201. 391. 710. 1507, 

8,61; 898; 967. 2111, 79 

Self, 1264 

Injustice, 106, 7. 1190; 296; 

804. 2149, 5S; 925. 3043; 

102; 550 
Iniquity (v. Justice) 698 
Innocence, 667. 837. 1073; 

875, 6. 2726. 3437, 52 
Innovation, 23 
Innuendo, 2271 
Insecurity, 318, 30 
Insensibility; Moral fv . Apa- 
thy) 461 
Insignificance, 3199 
Insincerity, 2117. 3847 
Insociability, 1335 
Inspiration, 2420 
Instinct, 152. 3118 
Instruction (•?. Education) 606, 

705 



xiy 



INDEX. 



Instructions {v. Ambassadors) 

" Ors [y. Education) 4129 

Integrity (v. Honesty) 39.271. 

1063. 2717, 59. 3064 
Intemperance {nf. Drunkenness ; 

Gluttony; Incontinence ; Rage) 

83 
Intention, 643. 2399 
Interest, 2490. 3502; 812 

■ ■ edness 

■ of Money, 1958 
Intercession, 3967 
Interference, 90 
Intolerance, 2727 
Intoxication (v. Drunkenness) 

1096, 7 
Invasion, 351. 3293 . $39 
Invention (v. Poetry) 2516 
Invidiousness, 1057 
Irresolution, 2086 
Irritation, 166. 1024, 51. 

3017; 422. 4027 



J. 

Jaundice (v. Grief) 3803 
Jealousy (v. Love; Guilt) 

877. 1277; 463,5; 558, 9; 

854. 2209. 4037; 101, 17 
Jests, 1603, 6. 2191; 202,82; 

3.251 
Jew, 2449 
joy (**. Grief) 452. 718, 32. 

2224. 3228, 31 
Judge (v. Ldiv ; ■Justice) 555, 

6. 616, 59. 2173; 471. 

3014, 71; 142; 242,4 

ment, 110. 1363 ; 741. 

2395 ; 448 
•' or Opinion^ 2S3. 

$79. 1124, 85 
— * mmmmmmm ^ m Critical, 1741 



Judgement or Opinion, Rational 

(v. Discretion; Discernment; 

Prudence; Equity) 3177; 

288 
J urisprudence ; Criminal, ,3428 , 

9 
Jury, 545 
Justice; Divine, 67. 113, 5, 

246. S78. 478. 553. 643. 

1363. 2763; 931. 3432; 

518; 946 

— Human, 43. 1 10. 227, 
65. 360. 439, 68. 536, 44, 
6, 7,50,5,6, 98. 616,43. 
2352; 468. 3071,79; 243; 
409. 4042 

1 Perversion of 
Defcctive,l395. 3266 

— General (y. Courage; 
Fortitude ; Benevolence ; Mer- 
cy; Temperance; Popular itij ; 
Rights; Wisdum) 478. 789. 
1185, 91; 391. 2281; 852, 
95; 468: 763. 3079; 184; 
311; 409; 640; 713; 941 



K. 

Killing (v. Homicide, Murther) 
Kindness (v. Benevolent*; Be- 
neficence ; Woman) 646. 1679; 
743. 2028. 3735, 57 
Kindred (v. Children, Brother) 

368. 3079; 146 
Kingdom (v. King) S532 
Kings, 37. 334, 45, 67, 87. 
443,67.513,20,9.1325,56; 
548, 9, 72 ; 609, 64, 5, 80; 
719, 83 % 7, 8, 90-2; 836, 
77-8*; 975. 2725; 931, 
$3,4. 3100, 41 ; 220,32, 
43^70,4; 319,20,4,5,40, 



INDEX. 



I, 71, 7; 476, 8, 91,5; 

776, 95; SiO, 14 
Kingdom^. Government) 3270 
Knavery (y. Rogue, Villainy) 

919. 1453; 629,79. 2746*. 

3237 
Knight (y. Garter, Chivalry) 

1287; 942,3. 3380; 856 
Knots, 3808 

Knowledge (y* Practice, Vir- 
tue) 1705,42; 813. 2568; 

613. S306;455; 586 

■ ■ pretended^ 788 



Labour, 436; 69. 2049; 777. 

3285 
Labourer, 2504 
Lady (v. Woman) 1211.2581 
Lamb, 3475 
Lamentation^. GriefSorroiv) 

A5S 
Lamp, 1858 

Lands (v. Property) 3386; 532 
Language, 2355. 3205 
Laughter, 2255 
Law (y. Justice, Right, Judge, 

Potver judicial, Loyalty) 219, 

27.375.536,43.671.1635; 

713. 2173,81; 450; 578; 

936,7. 3358; 569; 602, 7. 

727. 4118 
- of Nature and Nations, 

3812 

military, 3379 

Leachery \i). Incontinence) 3832 
Leaders, 2246. 3144, 54; 

308 ; 641 

ing, 981,2 

Learning {v. Literature) 209. 

653. 2294. 3594; 741 
Leisure {v. Love) 469. 2233 

€ S 



Lending (v. Borrotving) 2424 

Leave-takinor. 3962 

Leering, 1289 

Legacy, 818 

Lesson (v. Love) 1860 

Levity, 1030, 84; 420 

Libel, Public (y. Defamation) 
2183 

Liberality, 1494.2570.3125 

Libertine, 11. 3621 

Liberty (y. Freedom) 340. 589. 
1331 ; 556. 2483. 3042 

Licentiousness (v. War, Wri- 
tings) 349, 94. 906. 1033, 
84. 2192. 3305, 15 

Lie (v. Falsehood) 1838. 2478 ; 
992. 3115 

Life, Physical and Moral, 86 
312,55. 406, 13, 82. 54& 
88, 95,7.726,82; 992.1009', 
297; 314,5,60-3; 584; 735, 
75; 825,87 ; 932,48,55. 
2018, 57 ; 498. 3281 ; 318, 
23,31,86, 90, 1,9; 433,4, 
74, 98; 597, 8; 615,49; 
787,8; 861,71, 8; 925,47. 
4062, 66 (v. Death, Honor, 
Virtue, Usefulness patriotism) 

Likeness 

Liking {y. Inclination) 1573 

Lion, 471. 2693. 3039; 47S 

Literature (v. Learning, Edu- 
cation) 1820. 2289 

Loquacity, 2119. 2330; 495 

Louvre, 226 

Love, 24. 34. 50, 1. 88. 442. 
688.714,69,72.6.827,52, 
5,7,61-97. 998. 1020,85; 
106,7,71 ; 229,31, 68, 9, 
72, 5; 452: 567, 8, 74, S2, 
7; 624, 86, 8, 91 ; 751,2, 
8,61 ;854, 60-7 •> 902, 35, 

2 



KTl 



INDEX. 



64,7,77,82.2001,2,20,2, 
36,8,-52, 6,79,81; 103, 
5, 7, 10, 22, 5, 7, 36-8, 
45,52; 243,53,6, 61, 85; 
308, 20, 35, 44-50; 64, 9, 
71, 3, 4, 7, 81, 3, 7, 92, 
4; 435,8,52; 507, 8, 10, 
3, 23, 6, 36, 48-50, 74, 
S3; 633,64,6,76,90,4,6; 
733, 40,9; 953.3440,83, 8; 
513; 656; 816, 7, 26, 9, 
49, 66-8; 957-60, 8; 77, 
86, 91. 4049 ; 109 (v. Affec- 
tion, Happiness) 

.Lovers («#. Love, Foivs, Wo- 
man , Beauty, Virtue) 2435 ; 
508, 17, 26, 9, 49; 652; 
738. 3816, 7. 4102 

Loudness {y. Music) 1809 

Loyalty, 3418 

Lowliness (v. Humility) 976 

Luck (v. Fortune ) Nonsense) 
2167 

Lunacy (v. Lunatic) 

Lunatic, 1698 

Lust (v. Desire inordinate) 
1772; 867,80. 

Luxuriance, 516 

Luxury (v. Ennui) 783. 1048 ; 
704, 98. 2021, 30; 775; 
960. 3915, 21 



M. 
Machinations, 978 
Madness (v. Distraction, 

Frenzy) 3427 ; 930, 95. 4009 
Magnanimity, 48. 158, 71 ; 

236, 50 
Maidens (v. Women) 542. 741 
Majesty {v. Kings) 520.1356. 

310-9 



Majesty of Beauty (v, Beauty) 
3395 

Majorities, 3589 

Malice (v. Malignity) 219, 
21. 364. 1618. 3174; S09 J 
429; 684 

Malignity, 2240. 3807 

Man (v. Woman, Humanity , 
Society) 40. 83. 617. 905, 
49,51,2,67. 1038; 202, 
44, 51, 2, 7; 467; 511 ; 
802,4, 13, 41 ; 915-8,63. 
2042, 3 ; 287 ; 428 ; €48, 
98; 710,64,72; 911, 28. 
3125,30, 49,73, 87; 207, 
8, 23, 37,46,70,5; 324, 
37,57,64,91 ; 446, 57, 80; 
513, 86; 639; 705, 9, 10, 
35, 43, 61;. 817, 8,42, 4, 
6, 8, 50, 66; 901, 5, 26. 

Mankind, 1194; 251 

Manner, 1065, 75 

•s, 14. 35. 156. 844. 



2503, 75; 920. 3341 ; 955 
Marble, 3482 
Marriage, 695.770. 937. 1085, 

180; 623, 72, 89; 758. 

2169; 365, SO; 429; 518, 

76, 86 ; 604, 25, 7. 3344, 5 ; 

402; 546; 864 
Marshall, 551 
Mass — solid Extension in large 

Quantities, 1156. 3209 
Masters, 1443 
Mathematics, 2564 
Matter, 1065, 75; 15S 
Matron, 2044 

Maxim, 1360, 3. 241 6 38S0-5 
Meaning Double, 29. 133 
Means {v. War) 3180 ; 307 
Meas**$0 r«n*ViSJL. 156$ 



INDEX. 



acvii 



Medicine fv. Prognostic] 1 234, 
2985. 3598 

Mediocrity, 241. 2415 

Melancholy, 413. 1016; 345. 
2407; 531-3,59. 3048 

Melioration, 365 ; 755 

Memorials, 3299 

Menaces, 2945 

Merchant, 2404 

Mercy (v.. Justice, Ckmency, 
Benevolence, Heaven, God) 
68. 227. 529, 51-3, 5, 7-9, 
98, 9. 1505, 49 ; 719, 2102, 
467, 9. 3286 

Merit, 1019; 173; 220-3. 
3146; 571 

Messenger, 1520 

Metaphor, 2615 

Metaphysics, 2564 

Military, 1654; 714 

Mi id* ess, 2609 

Mind, Public, 2725 

Mind (v. Identity) 962. 1210, 
92, 3; 331, 84, 7,8; 553, 
4,63,91 ; 745; 951.2006, 
11, 29; 223, 90; 441 ; 739, 
47,56; 914, 8, 56. 3137, 
95; 209, 38; 481 

Minutes (v. Time) 1948. 3474 

Miracles (*>. Love) 328 
496. 822 

Mirror, false, 1235, 42 

Mirth, 1602. 2314 

Misanthropy, 3743 

Mischief, 1644. 2240. 3408 ; 
746, 85 ; 809 

Misconduct {v, Error, Via:) 
2949 

Misconstruction, 2462 

Misdeeds (v. Crime) 2925 

Miser (•!/. Avarice) 1518.3292 

Miseries, petty^ 390S 



Misery, 401. 1406,46; 734- 

2250, 2. 3744 
Misfortune, 1799 
Misgovernment, 2937 
Mistrust, 2455 
Mockery, 2422; 525 
Moderation, 13. 196. 544* 

3604,20. 4010-5 
Modesty, 741. 908, 10; 2078, 

82; 121,74; 453; 643, 4, 

3315 
Monarch (v. King) 1783; 

879, 80 
Monopoly (v. Power) 
Morality (*. Ethic, Religion) 

3036, 96 

' — Verbal i 3037 

?\iorning 
Moroseness {y. Ill-nature) 

2421 
Mortality (v. Man, Death) 

328.448. 1412; 763. 3191 
Mother (v. Child) 3992 
Motives (y. Reason, Cause, 

Passion) 2440. 3060 
Motto, dramatic or judicial. 

3261 
Mountains, 2396 
Much .unknown, 33 
Multitude (v. V/ar) 79. fSSS. 

3831 
Murther,341, 63. 812. 1436 • 

537,8. 2791. 3000; 287 ; 

731,3. 4031 
Muse (<n. Genius fioetic) 3258 
Music (y. Eove, Harmony ) 

391, 3. 618. 895. 14141 

579, 82; 721, 2; 809. 

2132, 7 ; 473.; 558, 63, 84. 

3088 ; 230, 69 
Mutability (v> Change) 55 3 S, 

254 : 508 



INDEX. 



Mutiny (v. Soldier) 281. 3379 

N. 
NAME (y. Opinion, Family) 

790.2996. 3181 ; 351,89 
Nation, 350. 2974. 3267 
* s {y. Laws of) 1184. 

3812 
Nature {*. Law of) 63. 152, 

3. 300. 533. 685, 6. 763, 9, 

90,8. 813,30-2. 1011,21 ; 

144,84; 251 ; 306, 17, 26, 

37,68,79, 93; 545; 711, 

19,55, 93; 816,57; 949, 

55, 7. 2064, 5, 97. 3566; 

812. 4059; 130 
■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - Good; (v. Good Mature) 

Ill; (v. Ill Nature) 

Navy, 1116 

Necessity, 388. 1011, 31, 

381 ; 675, 6. 2134, 70; 

640. 30S5; 203,14; 497; 

511; 623. 4059 
Neglect, 644. 1058. 2148 

Self 3295 

Negligence, 2074 

Nest, 2209 

News (v. Humour) 297. 497. 

6J2. 1022,74; 117. 3156; 

844 
Night (v. S Hence , Music) 435. 

1633, 97; 721, 57, 70; 894. 

2132; 913. 3232, 98; 762, 

92 
Nightingale, 2003 
Nobility, 337. 1077; 473; 

812. 2758. 3102; 384; 

445; 856 

Natural, 209. 2758 

Noise, 1923 
Non-employment, 3206 
Note O Music) 1960 



Nothing (*, Cause) S86S 
Novelty, 204, 88. 320. 534. 
2436; 585 



O. 
OATH (v. Perjury) 305, 6. 
665, 99. 819, 25^ 6. 924, 5, 
54, 80, 1041; 300; 65*2 ; 
819; 943.2092; 386; .319; 
940.3336, 81; 458; 796; 
913 
Obedience, flial, 391 1 

to God, 11 2. 3061; 



858 



— to Man, 249. 3850 

generally, 366. 801. 

1826 

Object, 2006; 364 

Obligation, indefnite, or im- 
perfect, 2637 

Oblivion, 1288; 849 

Obloquy, 1002 ; 731 

Obscenity, 2327 

Obscurity, 233 

Obsequiousness, 2136; 356 

Observance («y. Love) 2196; 
548 

■ation, 548. 2315, 21 ; 



716. 3006; 354; 541 ; 840 
-ers, 3541 



Obstinacy, 3. 1380. 2116 
Occasion (v. Opportunity) 195. 

471. 3129 
Odour, 1952 

Offence {Displeasure) 2959 
s,556, 61.849. 1377; 

610; 882 

-ders, 1882 

Office, 3929 

s, 1709 

— T (V Mutiny) 3379 



INDEX, 



Offices, Public (v. Character) 
1826, 31 

Officiousness, 672. 4024 
Old Age fa JgeJ 3025 
Olive («y. Peace) 1517. 3228 

Omens, 971 

Omittance (v. Forbearance) 

2528 
Omnipotence (<a. God) 121. 

3276 ; 321 ; 464 
Opinion, 1240, 1, 3; 807. 

2036; 226; 409,46; 722. 

3189: 36 l 2; 563; 674. 4074 
— S*(f'i or Conceitcdncss, 

2541 
Opportuneness, 1724. 3112 
. -ity, 336. 1091 ; 524; 

1 730. 2967. 3112.; 85. 4052 
Opposition, 897 
Oppression, 73. 137.253.299 
Optimism, 2101. 3035 
Orator (v. Eloquenoe) 1479. 

2537. 3085; 367 

, y, 3 

Orbs, Celestial; {v. Planets, 

Harmony, Order Celestial] 

1722 
Order of Knighthood 
Order, Celestial, 1159 

Moral, 2622 

Political, 1160, 2-4 

External, 2956 

Universal, 1163. 2193 

Generally, 3800 

Origin, 1368 

Ornament, 1715; 903, 52. 

2031; 715 
Orpheus (<v. Music J 2473 
Orts, 3638 

Ostentation, 540. 1800- 2272 
Owner (i>. Justice, Association) 

1191. 2002; 150.3696 



Oyster, 2552 ! 



P. 
PAIN O Pleasure, Grief, 

Vice, Sincerity) 1407. 2228. 

3026 
Paint, 1945 

ing, 1974 

— - in ifs metaphorical 

Sense, 278 j 
Palliatives, 176 
Panegyric, 2311 
Paper-forces, 3181 
Parade (<y. Ostentation) 
Paradox, 3728. 4005 
Paragon, 40 
Pardon, 182. 200. 467. 556, 

77, 99. 2935. 3220 
Parentage (v. Learning, Birth) 

653. 1896 
Parents, 760. 1896. 2113 $ 

186; 368. 3911. 4129 
Parliament, 3245 
Parricide, 1366. 3890 
Partiality, 289. 2015, 89; 

527; 738 
Parting, 3015; 962 
Party (*>. Coalition) 3386, 7 ; 

622 
Partridge, 3436 
Parts fas in Music) 3269 
Passion, 51-4. 208, 12. 517, 

91. 664. 768. 1000, 82; 

126, 88,93, 5; 829, 82,4, 

93,5.2106, 16,51,63 ;251, 

77; 590; 732, 44; 905, 79. 

3103-5, 56, 7 ; 830, 58, 66. 

4012, 3 
Past, 1026 v ; 736 
Pastors, 11 
Patience, 390. 415, 42, 7, &, 

61 j 549, 57, 79, 1052? 



INDEX. 



2098; 277; 328; 464; 

589; 607; 913. 3001,74; 

126, 50,67; 248, 67, 74, 

82; 412, 66,86; 830; 956. 

4018, 27, 60, 93 
Patriotism (y. Liberty, Free- 
dom) 955. 3135; 388; 405; 

615,50-2; 775,6 
Peace, 515. 1327; 517; 607, 

17. 2555, 94, 6; 922, 89. 

3039 ; 228 ; 302, 3 ; 384 ; 

505,27; 865 

« makers, 1631. 2995 

Mental, 2932 

Peacock, 2214 
Pedantry, 1908. 2331, 55 
Peevishness, 938. 2151 ; 407 
People, 175. 1787. 3141 
Penitence (i/. Repentance) 946 
Perception, 1697 
Perfections, natural, 7 98. 1400 
Perfection, human, 883 

_ general, 2037 

Perils (y. Danger, Fortitude, 

Affection, Courage) 346. 

2710, 79 
Perjury, 2361 ; 454. 3054. 

4114 
Permission, 537 
Persuasion, 1013 
Persecution, 2296 
Perseverance, 1248. 2085. 

3152 
Perspective, 2396 
Perturbation, 3672; 822 
Perverseness, 3974 
Philanthropy, 2910 
Philosophy, 33. 1006; 187; 
435 ; 580. 2292 ; 562. 3619 
Physic, 
Physician, 2512 



Physiognomy, 327. 492, S. 

624,905. i08l;283; 525, 

6; 928, 9. £029,75; 235; 

761 ; 961. 3006; 417 
Pick-purses, 3108, 9 
Piety, 3278 
Pilgrim, 923 

age O Life) 2057 

Pirate, 1625 
Pitch, 2269 

ers (v. Curiosity) 2592 

Pity {y. Compassion) 661 , 74. 

883. 1505; 888. 2690. 

3637 
Placability {y. Forgiveness) 

365. 1005 
Place, 3384 

Plainness (y. Simplicity) 1080 
Planet (y. Orb, Order, Har- 
mony celestial) 
Plants, 1793 
Play, 1734, 5 

ers, 4000, 14-6 

— — ing [y. Drama) 

Plea, 1713 

Pleasure, 382. 1040; 133, 

89 ; 407 ; 872, 4. 3228 ; 663 

false, 385 

Plenty {v. Peace) 1327 
Poet (*r. Music) 931, 2. 1699 
ry, 965, 6. 2348; 516, 

32, 63. 3682-4 
Poison, 1773. 3600 
Policy, 185. 1047; 165.3131 ; 

724; 930. 4072 
£qjtitfcjB»»39U 
Politeness, 632 
Pomp, 1146; 519; 609. 

3700, 37 
Poor (v. Poverty) 2692. 3447; 

575 



INDEX. 



XX! 



Popularity, 154, 98. 228. 320. 
503.3078; 128, 31 

affected* soi 9 

Popular Saying (i/. Saying) 
Possession, 1182.2539 
Possessions, 3471 
Possibility, 1121,2; 221 
Posthumous (v. Fame) 58 
Poverty, 237. 1316; 466. 

2692; 929. 3543 
Power (v. God) 1237; 325; 

774. 3092 ; 334 ; 747 ; 948 

, comparative, 2476 

— human (-v. Man, Wo- 
man, Flattery) 199. 387. 

529, 34, 8, 42, 61 ; 625. 

1990. 3247;- 384, 5 
Practice, 1580; 705. 3263; 

339 
Praise, 687, 8. 730, 78.-848, 

76. 972. 1079, 99; 221, 2,; 

821 ; 962, 73. 2131; 338'; 

477; 706, 7. 3681 ; 747 

~ unjust ('v. Flattery) '3247 

— insincere, 1498. 3715 

Self, 14S3; 581 

Prayer, 64. 71. IS92; 265; 

469. 3094 
Preamble, 2236 
Precept; 11 
Precipitance (v. Rashness) 

214, 5 
Pre-eminence, 205 
Preference, 1181 
Preferment, 2752.. 4069 
Prejudice, 2015; 449 
Prematurity, 129.409.3536 
— ■ 'extravagant (<i>. 

Partiality, Merit) 
Prepossession, 79. 155 - 
Presence, 1254 
Present («z>, Past) 1736 



Presentiment, 128. 420 
Preservation, 3566 
Presumption, 1286 
Presumption jW/Vis/ or logical^ 

1647 
Pretence, 1644 

s, 573. 1060. 2714 

r sions, 1923. 2303. 

3099; 639 
Prettiness, 2303 
Prevention /v. War) 125,6. 

282. 2724. 3504; 809 
Prey (Birds and Beasts of) 

661 
Pride, 464. 802. 1199. 235, 

6, 58-62 ; 594; 650. 2214 ; 

S05;670, 81. 3099; 565 t 

80. 4081 
Priests, 1346 
Princes O. Khgs) 114, 8. 

249. 1086; 880-4. 2725; 

3106; 326; 572; 988 
Principle (<v t Education, Rea- 
son, Virtue) 703. 955 
Priority, 1050 
Prison, 
er (v. Gaol, Gaoler) 590. 

2175, 7; 307. 3843; 997 
Privilege, 3609 ; 894. 41 1 1 
Process, 3609 
Procrastination (v. Delay) 1 50. 

851. 1555. 2086. 4034 
Prodigality^ Profligacy )%fl '. 

1504; 904. 30415 168 5 752, 

3 ; 823, 86 
Proiligks, 971. 2958 
Pfofar.eness, 3092 
Professions, 1514. 3095 
or Declarations i 

3704 
Profit, or Improvement, 2565 



*xii 



INDEX. 



Profligacy, 3746; 823; 923 
Profusion (v. Prodigality) 398. 

1502-4 
Prognostics, 332. 449, 77, 

92. 510, 24. 960. 1848; 

995. 2754; 985. 3999 
Progress, 163 

ion, 3987 

Prolixity, 2354. 3549 
Promises, 819. 1233; 790. 

2091,2. 3759, 60; 912 
Promptitude, 4122 
Proportion, 2242 
Proof, 1157. 3837. 4073 
Property (y. Possessions) 4063 
Prose, 2535 
Prosperity (v. Adversity) 9. 

180.421.636. 1325. 2692; 

736, 43; 983. 3715, 34, 

44 
Providence divine, 91, 2.457. 

668. 791. 1046; 732. 2062, 

99 
Prudence, 15. 706.966.2189 ; 

573; 907, 67. 3169, 70; 

431; 509; 821, 99; 917, 

48, 85. 4002 
false, 1153 

' excessive, 4033 

Public, 2725; 976. 3393; 

765, 7 
Punctuality (v. Lovers) 866 
Punishment (v. Death, Exile) 

80. 375. 544. 2096; 178, 

81, 84; 375; 413; 624. 
4010; 55 

■ "' natural^ 2017. 

3836 
Punning, 2460 
Pirrity, 1859; 991. 3993. 

4095 



Purity judicial (v. Judge) 61 fit 

3409 
Purpose, 4020 

Qualities, 739. 1730, 1. 3364 
Quarrel, 15. 1184. 2281. 
3729 

Pickers, 2703 



I 



Queen, 3396 

Question, 2219 

Quibbling fit. Punning) 2460 

Quiet, 2217 

Quillets, 2342 

Quips, 2259 

Quittance, 2528 

R. 
Rack, 2456 
Rage, 177. 335, 69 v 2464; 

943, 4 
Rags, 3898 
Railing, 3893 

Raillery (v. Wit) 2554; 695 
Rain, 3482 
Rancour, 3521 
Rank, 560. 1877 
Rapacity, 1804. 2904, 47. 

3400 
Rareness, 1980 
Rashness, 96. 608. 704. 1343 ; 

509. 2419. 3157; 606 
Rats, 3896 
Raven, 1209; 694 
Reason (i/. Anger, Passion, 

Punishment, Force) 208, 12. 

637. 8S1. 915. 1126, 65, 

78. 216. 2023; 197; 258; 

317, 82, 3; 419; 695. 

3216; 274; 624,75 ; 810, 

11,30,49; 903,31. 4018 



INDEX. 



xxui 



Reasons, 1008: 188; 977. 
595 

Abuse js IS 50 

Rebellion, ?\id 
Recantation, 3765 
Reciprocity, 641 
ling, 2519 
Recommendation, 2557 
Recompense, 1720 
Reconciliation, 2237 
Recreation (v. Amusemeut) 

2217. 309S 
Redress, 3772 
Refinement, 

false, 2304 

Reflection, 965. 2321 
Reform, 343. 29' 7. 3599 
ation, 3252, 5, 62. 

4017 
Refusals, 3722 
Regret, 192. 736.848. 1039. 

2203 
Rhetoric (v. Reason) 3810 
Relationship, 3034, 79 
Reliance, 134. 255. 1304 
Relief (v. Grief, Patience, 

Fritnds/i ip , Reason , Religion , 

Necessity) 390 
Relhion, 232. 1617; 712. 

2730. 3096; 742 
Reluctance, 322 
Remedy, 81. 444. 1376; 

554; 6S2; 970. 2275. 3598; 

805 
Remembrance, 268. 3220 
Remorse, 674. 710. 2097 
Renown (v. Glory, Fame) 

3818 
Repeal, 543 
Repentance, 69. 184. 572. 

674. 944-6. 1364; 971. 

2012, 35, 8S, 96; 166, 



76 ; 546; 748.3082; 185 ; 
544 
Repetition {v. Love) 2001 
Report, 2037 
Representation, 1082 
Rej.-ocf (y. Self Reproof) 

1115; US. 3251 
Refutation, 370. 1 457-9. 3090 
Resemblance, ''. "0 
Resentment, 2096 ; 251 ; 530 
— — — — — ccqueiish (v. 

Coquetry) 
Reserve, 1284 
Resignation (c. Fortitude, 
Piety) 194. 1139; 817. 
3150; 473,9, SO 
Resistance, 545. 2978 
Resolution (V Fortitude) 307, 

8. 1133: 851 
Respect {p. Wisdom, Virtue) 

1341 j 702 
Responsibility, moral (v. Pa- 
rol ts , Educatio n , Kings ) 
4129 
Rest, 239. 1012; 393. 3566 
Restitution, 66 
Retaliation, 462. 1482; 669 
Retirement, 1729 
Retreat, 3831 
Retribution, 95,7. 1541.2712. 

3768 
Revenge, 1189; 299; 941. 
2152; 943, 98. 3770; 980. 
4040 
Revels, 2350 
Revolt, 2981 

Revolution, 2909, 81. S181 
Reward, 1220. 3106 
Riches '^.Wealth) 1433; 85G. 

2162. 3699; 737 
Ridicule, 2259, 62 



XXIV 



INDEX. 



Right, 432. 1188; 230. 2041; 

175; 992. 3713 

s, 8233; 383 

Rigour, 615 

Rising, 2Q50 

Rivalry, 485. 3008 

Roads, 3050 

Robber, 934 

Rogue, 2750. 3092, 3 

Roae (w. Beauty, Virtue) 

1122. 2661; 954 
Roughness, 970 
Royalty (v. Kings ; Favourites) 

443. 507, 13, 20. 3325 
Rules, 1360-3. 2585 
Rumour (<v. Fame) 511.1396; 

612.2620.3l53;353; 667 ; 

936 



Sacrifice to Ambition (<v. War, 
Life, Prayers) 86. 1295 

Safety, 1390. 3323 

Sailor, 1815 

Saint, 560,71 

Sanctity (v. Modesty, Chastity) 

Sands, 2049 

Satiety, 474 

Satirist, 3761 

Sauciness, 3186 

Saying, popular, 642 

Saws (v. Aphorisms, moral 
and prudential) 2502 

Scar (v. Wounds) 847. 1420 

Scholar, 1755 

Schools (ir. Order) 1162 

School-boy, 3960 

Science, 1592; 814. 3301 

Scorn, 2105,27; 265; 389 

Scorpion, 3431 

Scraps, 2355 

Scripture, 1706, 7 



Scrupulousness, $25 
Scurrility (i>. Buffoonery, Ob- 
scenity) 2329 
Sea, 191. 1158; 803. 2055; 

991. 4008 

man, 1848 

Season, 239. 1724. 2297 
— - — moral (y> Advice, 

Opportunity) 1602. 2297; 

741. 3835 
Secrecy, 995. 2592. 3985 
Secret, 2643. 3113 
Secureness, 1798 
Security (v. England) 61 . 359. 

1177; 607. 2434; 736. 

3492, 3 ; 841 
Seduction, 2046 
Selection, 161 
Self", 1747; 900. 2214, 88; 

641. 3557 
- — ishness, 240, 95, 6. 324. 

1842; 931, 2. 2164; 324; 

897. 3135; 405; 591 
Self Accusation, 2133 

Command, 2095 

— — Commendation (y» Praise) 

765. 1167; 205 

Complacency, 459 

Contemplation, 2670 

— Deceit, 76. 833. 3763 

■ Denial, 615 

- — Desertion, 1227 

— *- Destruction (v. Suicide) 

Esteem, IS. 213. 3114 

Examination, 562 

Injury, 1264 

Knowledge, 613. 3114 

Love, 261. 2513; 634. 

3186; 295 

Neglect, 3295 

Praise, 1483 ; 581 

Reproof, 3937 



INDEX. 



ation, 1383 . 
i Sense, 2384. 3799. 4128 

s, 2744 

Sensibility, 4056 

— ■- to Pain, 602 

Sentence, 468 

>s(y. Maxims) 2416; 



683 



-judicial, 3011 



Sentiment (v. Association) 

1432. 2150 
Separation, 2220 
Sermons of Nature, 1729- 
Serpent, 1289; 769 
Servants, 1352. 2111, 2 ;207; 

3902 
Service, 766; 93. 2611; 723^ 

3285 ; 839. 4070 
— — — insincere, 4071 
■ s {y. Thanhs, Gratitude) 

793. 1744 
Servility, 3611 
Severity, 78. 4023 
Sex 0* Woman) 1916 
Shadow, 3789. 4115, 28 
Shame {y. Modesty) 670. 910. 

1849, 96. 2033; 203, 15; 

957. 3331 ; 423 
— — — for Disgrace y 3388, 

90; 415,23; 857 

£- false, 4030 

SheepJ«698, 9 

Shepherd {v. Country) 898, 9. 

1664, 5 ; 848 
Shifts, 1855 
Shortness of Life (y. Life) 

2057 
Show, 1710; 989. 3249, 91 
Shrift, 3965 
Sickness, 298. 414, 30. 512. 

1776. 3805 
Sighs, 2548 



Sight (?>. Drama, Eye, Ear) 

192L. 2029; 371 
■ first, 2526 
Signs (y. Prognostics) 433-. 

1649; 870. 3176; 435,49 
Silence (i/. Grief, Stillness^ 

Music) 377.667.746. 1064; 

569, 70; 614; 721. 2401 ; 

567. 2751 
Silliness (v. Affectation) 2410 
Simplicity, 41. 104, 47. 740. 

1080; 231,81.2262; 399; 

591. 3855, 77 
Simulation, 578. 3416 
Sin (y. Crime, Folly) 496, 549, 

605. 1395; 577; 652; 

771,8-82, 91; 810. 3095; 

202; 422, 58; 542, 44, 

53; 708, 31 
Sincerity (y Simplicity) 178. 

632. 999. 1225; 356; 462. 

2239; 908. 3026; 870, 7 
Singing {y. Music, Accom* 

filishments) 1279. 2987 
Singularity, 2190; 675 
Siren (y. Singing) 2205 
Sky (y. Weather, Prognostics) 

332 
Slander {y. Calumny) 82. 248. 

4.50, 88, 96. 560. 663. 

1318; 610; 979. 2019; 

183; 215; 499; 635. 3201; 

306; 574; 807. 404©; 104 
Slavery, 1424; 893. 2480 
Sleep, '989. 1 308, 30 ; 405, 

29; 530, 1. 2793. 3964 
Slightness, 359$ 
Smiles, 3783 
Smoke, 203^ 
Snares, 2902 
Sobriety, 2567 



T t 



INDEX. 



Society, 744. 959. 1089 ; 335. 

2332; 783. 3173 
Soldier, 1102,5; 834. 3324, 

56, 97. 4086 
Solemnity, 3851, 2 
Solitude, 2142; 533; 618; 

783. 3030 
Son {v. Children , Mother, 

Widow) 735. 1401; 818. 

2113 
Sophistry, 1920. 3459 
Sorrow {it. Grief, Comfort) 

117. 356, 77, 82, -3. 673. 

718,41,2, 947. 1346; 404, 

5, 16, 85, 7, 79, 81 ; 696 ; 

737, 99; 845, 6, 63, 72; 

935,71, 9-81. 2008; 911, 

54. 3002, 17, 48, 60, 2; 

410,87; 784; 982,4 
Sotti&hness, 2651 
Soul (v. Body, Election) 361. 

1136, 73; 557; 722, 3; 

901, 81. 2985. 3984 
Sound {v. Music, Pedantry) 

1639; 722, 3; 908, 23. 

3704 
Sound {deep Waters) 2558 
Sovereignty (v. Law) 3033 
Sparrow (i>. Providence) 1 732. 

3139 
Spark, 3422 

Speaking {v. Rashness) 60S. 
.920. 2402. 3042; 339; 810. 

4023 

1 Public, 4013, 16 

Spectres fv. Quilt. Szijisrsfizicfi) 

2767 
Speculation (V, Vhlon) 1241 
Spirit, 371. 527. 723. 1134; 
"981. 3154; 209; 314,76 

, Public, 3393 

Splendor, 2475. 6 



Sports, field, 2325 

Amusements, generally, 

1407 
Spring, 1690; 905, 96. 2549. 

3535 
Spunge, 2423 
Stage {it. Drama, Theatre, 

Actor, Player, Life) 1735, 

9, 40. 2406 
State, or Government, (v, Na- 
tion, P eo file, City, Reform) 

175. 2471. 3007; 269-73; 

575, 6, 99 
Statesmen, 3267, 8 
Station, 620. 795. 1093* 313, 

32. 3774; 888 
Statutes, Penal, 2181. 3575 
Steadiness, 2230 
Stillness (i>. Night, Music) 

1721. 3999 
Storge, 3469 
Stories, 1869. 2964. 3549 
Strawberry, 3264 
Strength, 1659. 3509 
String, Musical (v. Harmony) 

1163; 960 
Stripes, 2064 
Student, 1755 
Study, 1592, S; 755. 2298; 

300; 561, 5, 6 
Style, 2688 a 

Subjects {v. Kings) •\/8d-; 

880. 3371 
Submission, 1236. 3101 
Subtility, 4118 
Success ( 9 ) Celeritf)2SS,l\30, 

54, 72, 84, 5; 245; 309. 

2582. 3477; 555 

ion, 1940; 4069. 3909 

Succour, 3022 

Suicide, 4. 1142; 320. S9B l 2 

Suit. 3SS5 



"INDIX, 



Sufferance (v. Patience) 3248 
Suffering (y, Symfiathy) 658. 

1383, 7, 8; 448, 9; 737; 941. 

2176; 484. 3751; 933,43 
Sumo/2)^ 484 
Summer, 2003. 3535; 734 
Sun (y. Planet , Order, Uni- 
verse) 126. 850. 1504; 745. 

2260; 340; 686; 754. 

3348; 793; 854 
—shine, 1104; 867 

■ set, 3975 

Superfo: ity(i>. Wisdom,Firtue) 

1813,4 
Superogation, 323 
— fiuity (y. Luxury) 1704 
stition, 1815, 70. 2733 ; 

958 
Suppleness, 1236 
Support, 255 
Surfeit [y. Excess) 532 
Surgery, 3442 
Surmise (y. Suspicion) 489. 

3180 
Surprize, 20S3 
Surveyors, 3181 
Suspicion (y. Jealousy, Evi- 
dence) 479, 94. 662. 1037; 

397 : r 684-6. 2617; 900. 

3435; 515; 758, 9 
Swaggering, 2714 
Swallow, 3734 
Sivan, 1907 

Swearing {y. Oaihs) 2229 
Sweetness (t>. Satiety) 474. 

1952, 9.2003. 3600; 947, 

61 
Swiftness (y. Thought) 253 S 
Sword O JFizr) 1517; 881. 

S304; 551 
Sympathy, 725. 1238 ; 386, 

8; 480, 99; 565; 624; 959. 
T 



2059; 285; 459; 521. 3031; 

162; 513 ; S33 
Symptoms [y. Prognostics) 524. 

718 
System (y. Order, Universe) 
'3800 



T. 

Tales {>. Story) 692. 2964 
Talents (<y. Station) 84. 525-8, 

707.1093; 198.2168 ; 553. 

3800 
Talons heiapJwric, 1828 
Tartarian, 846. 2388 
Taste, 690. 2433. 4013 
Taxation, 3559 
Teaching (y. Education^ 

Example, Religion) 11. 232. 

1617. 2417 

false, 1321 

Tears (y. Grief, Sorrow) 342. 

719. 1479; 660; 893; 916. 

2225; 3S9; 548. 3967 

of Joy, 20S0 

_ false 1847 

Temper, 2252. 3226; 642 

ance, 1704.3558.401 2 

Tempests, 2975 
Temple, tneiaphoric, 1901 
Temporizing, 652. 2934 
Temptation\y, Corruption) 545, 

64, 8. L2Sd; 900. 2205 
Terms, 3218 

Terror (*/. &////) 2767, 73 
Testimony, 2180; 982 
Thanks, 1744 
Theatre, 1734. 3078; 257, 

61 
Theories, false, 2072. 3263 
Thieves, 570. 1856. 2203; 

450; 713. 3110 

t 2 , 



INDEX, 



Thoughts, 45S; 62, 3-, 5. 643. 

1147 ; 738; 969. 2267, 

5-38; 623.3148; 278 ; 655. 

4021 
Threats, 1340. 2945 
Thrift, 2425 
Throne, 1719 
Thunder, 3890 
Tide, 3195 
Tilts, 2115. 
1 ime (*/. Thoughts, Life) 462, 

3. 504. 638, 79-81. 712. 

923. 1056; 151; 232,47, 

83; 359; 416; '524, 62 ; 

906, 24, 35, 6, 49, 50, 82, 

98. 2004, 12; 256, 398; 

459; 511, 44, 5. 3148; 

210, 3, 28, 60, 80; 474; 

547, 96 ; 605,66; 792. 4049 

~ proper, 110 

musical,. 460, 1 

. . dramatic, 2367 

s, 1098. 2900, 77. 3210, 

14; 474; 547. 4014 
Title, 3268 

s, 3524; 856 

Toad, 1728 
Tomb, 800 
Tongue, 1076. 2043,84; 267; 

543, 90; 606. 3044; 130; 

S04; 560; 868 
TciUire, 2456. 
Tournaments', 2115 
Town Life 0. City) 1315 

, s , £299 

Trade, 1267. 2404 
Tra reformer, 2257 
Transmission, 3233- 
Traps, 2902 
Travelling, 859. 1409 
Travellers, 934. 14C9. 2069. 

4008 



Travellers inconstant, 2052 
— — Lovers of the 

Marvellous, 2069 
Treachery, 828. 1773. 2043; 

155; 762. 3022, 44; 223; 

381 ; 485 ' 
Treason, 1322, 54; 542; 

727. 2900. 3101, 43; 287 
Treasures, 1331 
Treaty, 149 
Trees, 1729 
Trespass, 1900 
Trials, 390. 1156. 2090 ; 548; 

607 
■ (<v. Patience) 

■ judicial, 2729. 3126; 

607 " . 
Trifle, 1464; 687 
Triumph, 346 
1 unjust, 100 

— silly, 1314. 4107 

Trophy, 3299 

Trouble, 1467; 552. 2108; 

228 
Trust {y. Confidence) 2042; 

718 
Truth {y. Honesty, Wisdom, 

Virtue , Gentleness) 324, 84. 

611, 33, 9, 60. 1023,64; 

169; 231, 74, 87; 398; 

838,9.2000,71 ; 262; 430; 

908,19,53. 3026; 117, 23, 
- 83; 240; 357; 418 ; 5G4 ; 

879 
Turtles ;■(»'. Constancy) 6S9. 

734 
Tutor, 2344 
Tvger, 1158 
Tyranny, 317, 8, 34. 671. 

1 505", 48 ; 784, 5, 94. 2348 ; 

464; 904. 3106 ; 235, 74, 



INDEX, 



388; 463; 515, 6. 541 ; 
650, 1 ; 873 



Unanimity of Affection, 734 

Unicorn, 985 

Union, 1054 

Unity of Design, 3271 

Universities, 2113 

Undervaluing, 2209, 10 

Unkindness, 1035; 211 ;844. 

2194. 4109, 10 
Unknozvn, 33 
Unpopularity, 156. 1166 
Unprofitableness, 1908 
Unwise and unjust, 1199 
Usage (v. Custom) 1760 
Use (y. Talents, Habit) 84 
Usury, 1315; 956,8 
Utility, 1763; 813, 4 

V. 
Valour [y. Courage, Fortitude, 

Virtue, Ambition) 487. 992. 

1131; 507; 654. 2281 ; 

698; 703, 84; 933, 80. 

3006, 39; 145, 51 ; 299; 
' 317, 26; 450; 582; 938. 

4043 
Value ideal, 505. 8159 
real, 1402. 2416. 3695, 

6 
Vanity, 398. 820. 1095; 887. 

2659,80,1. 3052; 121,63 
Veins, 3627 
Veneration (v. Deity) 554. 

713 
Vengeance (y. Revenge, Pu- 
nishment) 1413. 2958. 3322 
Venture, 1010. 2404 
Verdict, 272 



Verse, 1741. 20^ 

3124 
Vessel, 3330 
Vexation, 2090 
Viands, 1665 
Vice, 73. 466. 54 

605, 29, 69, 82. I 

974. 1128; 283 ; I 

9; 426, 7; 544, 95; 

80; 885; 901, 20. 

203, 58; 342; 432 

2. 3087; 178; 528; 
Victim, 1537, 8 
Victory, 1018, 3506 
View, 3556 
Vigilance, 6 1 . 285. 479. 1 1 Is 

2161. 3021 ; 781 
Viieness, 100 
Villainv, 116. 1083; 453; 

630, 63, 71 ; 830. 2270; 

933. 3096; 749 
Vindictiveness (y. Revenge) 

2943 
Vine, 3301 
Vineyard, ibid 
Violence, 2144 
Violet, 566 

Virginity (v. Chastity, Mo- 
desty) 741. 90S, 10. 2378. 

3458 
Virtue (y. Wisdom, Fortitude, 

LoveJVoo>an)2±S).?>l.'~('$. 

159,51.240,7,59,94.337. 

525,6,49,63,8,80.603,10, 

16,9.31,9,45,82,3.700, 

10, 39, 58, 60, 84, 90, 5. 

818,32,9,43,5, 50. 997. 

1062, 87, 8; 210,30,1,50, 

3, 78, 9,83; 331, 41, 55; 

408, 13, 26, 7, 74; 515, 

44-9; 711; 801, £0, 7; 

905,44,52,85, 99. 2013, 

t 3 



INDEX. 



2; 134, 5,72, 4, 

2, 80; 413,32,56, 

561 ; 602, 5, 26, 

984. 3006,20,5; 

; 398; 401, 47, 

; 534, 60, 3, 87 ; 

11, 24, 72; 935. 

77,83, 92; 108, 15 

2006 

1830. 3528 
.on, 3095; 447 
,1400. 2145 
-for Opinion or Vote^ 3335 ; 
92 
jlunteer, 146 
oluptuousness, 1410 
v r otes, 3595 
Vows (v.. Oaths) 21 

of Lovers , 22 

— generally , 825. 1300; 

847. 2046, 93. 3816, 46 



W.. 
Walls, £577 

-Want (v. Friendship 1806. 
3707, 55 

Wantonness, 2960 

War (<u. Invasion) 145, 6, 50. 
290, I. 483. 1186. 2922, 3, 
46,50, 73, 89. 3007, 21, 
S3, 9; "133, 8,' 80, 1; 207, 
8, 11,2, 24, 35, 45, 59, 
67, 92,3; 301, 7, 8, 2 5, 
20, 2, 80, 92; 475, 7, 8; 
501, 53, 4; 766, 9, 98; 
944 

Warrior, 3791 

Waste (v. Prodigality, Profu- 
sion) 1270 

Watchfulness (v. Vigilance, 
War % Age) 2984.3554 ; 964 



Watching, 3030 
Water, 3701 

s, 1640 

Waves (v. Life) 1948 

Way (v. Conversation) 425 
Weal, Public (v. Haiifmess) 

3969 
Wealth, 818. 1512. 2196; 
414, 61; 605; 904. 3402 
Weapons, 1092'; 444.3427 
Weariness, 1330 
Weather {y. Prognostics) 2328; 

754. 3535 
Wedlock(v. Marriage) 3402,3 
Wedge, 3808 
Weeds, 3536 
Weeks (v. Time) 3474 ' 
Welcome, 3820 
Whale, 3226 
Wherefore, p 2197 
Whim, 98 8| 
Why, 2197 

Wickedness, 1529.2647; 753,, 
92. 3805, 21 ; 408 ; 749. 
', 4112, 3 
Widow, 3458 
Widowhood, 301, 78. 735 
Wife (v. Husband) 810, 15. 
" 1180^92; 725, 56, 8; 899. 
2220; 32.6; 540.' 3126. 
41 10 
Will, 1126; 695. 2154; 610 
— — Divine (v. God) 327o\ 
4026 

Hufnan, 3358 

ingne^s, 3508, 83 

Wind, 1 666. 2434 ; 958. 3497 ; 

999 
Wine, 2038 ; 557. 3627.4087, 

91 
Wings, 3455 
Winter, 2298 ; 587. 3899 



INDEX. 



vxxi 



Wisdom, 499. 505. 1165; 

228; 985, 8. 2100, 59. 

3091 ; 111, 84; 366, 72; 

-196; 811 ; 927. 4046; 122 
— ■ perverted, the ivorst 

Felly, E359 
Wishes,594. 1049. 2548. 3922 

Wit, 38. 165. 2272 ; 311, 3, 5, 
6;628,87.3092;162;224 

Affectation of it, 2284 ; 

312,3; 461,2; 628, 83 

Bess, 273. 691 

Woe (y. Grief, Sorrow) 1 108 ; 

913, 36. 3067; 467 
Wolf, 2693. 3170 
Woman (y, Kindness, Beauty, 
Zow, Constancy) 229. 300. 
542,65,80,2.1149; 211, 
29,57; 458 ; 916-8. 2059; 
153, 60, 74; 391; 542 : 
3,97,8; 646,61,5; 921. 
3335 ; 659 ; 846 ; 923 

«. .- Modesty her best 

Dower, 2078 ; 514 
Word, 3086 

s (y. Actions) 1214, 25; 

323; 448; 908,27. 2210; 
460; 672,84,5; 768; 983. 
3280; 419,20; 567 ; 648 ; 
828, 66 ; 922, 69. 4044 
Work (y. Labour, Perform' 
ense) 8057; 461 



World (y. Life, Death) 573. 
1239; 311. 2114; 227; 
405, 6; 903,72,82.3013; 
254; 306; 414: 534; 969, 
70, 97 

■ the future (y. Eternity) 
3617 
Worm, 3788 
Worth, 817. 1225; 978,83. 

3146; 299; 317. 4124 
Wound, 3442 
Wrangling, 3666 
Wrath (v. Anger) 2096 
Wren, 2898 
Writing, 2529 
Wrong (<z>. Injustice, War) 
1967.2041,51 ;221; 468, 
88 ; 579. 2965.3212; 550; 
62S 



Y. 

Years (y. Tivie, Age, Life) 

1961. 3121 
Youth (y. Education) 1187. 

2095; 115, 20, 6; 358; 

550, 62, 9, 81; 616,54; 

966.3025; 119,75,8, 90; 

234; 534. 4047; 129 



Z. 



Zeal, false (y. Bigotry) 






LIST OF FLAYS 

WHEXCE THE APHORISMS ARE TAKEN, 



£? As the Plays are distributed into two Divisions by this 
List, the Aphorisms of any one Piay may be found with 
much ease. 



H 



. AMLET 
:. Richard III. 
5. Coriolanus 

4. Henry Fill. 

5. John - 

6. Richard IL 

7. Henry IV. Part 1st - 

Part 2d - 

c . Measure for Measure 
9. Winter's Tale - 
'10. All's Well that ends Well 
11a Tivo Gentlemen of Verona 
I 2. Julius Casar 
] 3. Antony & Cleopatra 
3 4. Troiius ^f Cressida 

15. Gymbeline 

16. Z<?<zr - 

17. Tempest 

18. £«an-a : o /,«&?/ 

19. Otfe/fo 

20. 7a&tf Andronlcus 

2 1 . Timon - - 

22. Macbeth 

23. Comedy of Mrrors 

24. Much ode about Nothing 

25. 7Vcv^*A ~%^ 
~6. Love's Labour Last 

27. Jftwp ^. 

28. - — - W. /tyi l,r 



vaiaro- Nighft Dream 



" 1-14 


cT 435-45 


14-18 


— 385-9 


19-24 


— 391-7 


24-32 


— 389.90 


33-40 


— 317-25 


40-51 


— 326-35 




335-43 


51-57 


— 344-55 


57-72 


— 249-51 


72-83 


— 308-10 


83-95 


— 295,6 


96-104 


— 242-8 


105-113 


— 398,9 


113-127 


— 400-2 


127-146 


— 415-1? 


146-152 


4] 9.22 


3 52-157- 


-422-31-51 


157,8 


— - 257-42 


159- IS! 


— 431-35 


'-:■ 


— 445-51 


164,3 


— 412-14 


165-9 


-— 403-1 i 


169-174 i 


Jf 310-17 


174-5 - 


- 251-5 


175-7 - 


- 255-61 


277,8 - 


— 297-308 


KS, 9 - 


— 261-9 


180 1 


— 355-68 


182 


— 368-74 


183 


— 374-80 


185 8 


- 330 RS 


. - 


- 269-". 



LIST OF PLAYS. 



30. Merchant of Venice 
Si. As Tou Like it 

32. The Taming of the Shrew 

33. Merry Wives of Windsor 

34. Per ides ) Prince of Tyre 





PAGES. 


190-4 


273-81-451 


194-6 


— 281-90 


196,7 


-— 291-4 


197,8 


— 248,9 



198-'206 



IN PART WRITTEN BY SHAKESPEARE. 



1 . T'uuo ISFoble Kinsmen 

2. Thierry Iff Theodoret 

3. 7"he Bloody Brother 



Venus Iff Adonis « 

Tarquin Iff Lucre ce 
Sonnets and Miscellanies 



41 


>2-3 
3 

Ibid. 


207-11 
211-21 
221-36 





June II, 1812. — On a visit to the Church of Stratford upon 
Avon, where a book is kept of the names of those who pay 
this tribute to Shakespeare's Memory, the following lines 
were written therein, in consequence of the late Mr. Maione 
having recently caused the ancient Monument and Bust to 
be daubed with paint, which we copy without comment. 

Stranger ! to whom this Monument is shewn, 
Invoke the Poet's curse upon Maione, 
Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste displays, 
And smears his tomb-stone as he marr'd his plays. 
Oct. 2, 1810. 



ERRATA 

P. xxxiv. in the Introduction, 

for Harterius, read Haterius. 

Characters — before ' Aphoris'm 

aft filled^ add this ^£ 

IN THE TITLES. 

A PH. 

149, CORIOLANUS. 
?06,far Mercy, r- Merit. 
248, add Til. Churchmen. 



488, H. IV. Pt. If. 
669, for less, r. l more.* 
735, AW. T. E. W. 
787, Title, Blessing un- 
expected. 
939, Habit. 

953, Happiness domestic 

954, JULIUS CJESAR. 
963, Irritation. 



ERRATA. 



XXXV 



APH. , 

977, Beginnings to be 

ivaicht. 
1455, 6, Drinking. 
1555, for study, r. < dusty, 
or ■ dusky; rathe] 
the latter. 
1665, Shepherd. 
1851, Resolution. 
2103, Two GENTLEMEN 

of VERONA. 
2172, Virtue. 
2225, Benevolence. 
2271, Innuendo. 
2288. LOVE'S LABOUR 

LOST. 
2352, Justice. 

2715, Ornament. 

2716, dele " or Fact." 
£763, Guilt. 
2784, Virtue, heroic. 
2904, State Rapacity, 

hoiv remorseless. 

2908, Truth, &c. 

5218, Terms. 

3258, HENRY V. 

3275, Home. 

3384, for Peace, tWPlace, 
a common but very 
unhappy error. 

3414, Death. 

3415, Shame. 
466 -r, Ecnevolence. 
4128, Sense. 

in the aphorisms. 

APH. 

251, \\ is a kind. 
1.471, Humbleness. 
2341 , Devils soonest. 

2434, thrifty. 

2763, for feed, r*a*/ 4 feels. 5 



65, /^r perfect, r/perplext.' 
794, for shut, r. ' stint. 

IN THE NOTES. 

viii r. litterary with a 

double t — the single is 

contrary to the analogy 

of our language. 

P. 12, for discussive, r. 

' discursive.' 
__ 74,/*r-&gis,r.«Ag». a 
— 78, illabatur. ^ 

110, necesstta— e. 
-134, CUIQUE. 
—196, BAUCIS. 
—212, transpose the Names. 

—235, «7T£ , x,ecr3'a/. 

—358, Quadris. 

—40^, Consilj expers — ruit. 

— 419, Vagitus. 

455, r. gauderem. 

IN PUNCTUATION. 

Note, p. 261, dele . after 
vincit. 

- 274, , after Dili git* 

index. 
APH . — Adversity, 189 
" Affection, inserts 

Affliction, 87 

Apprehension, 72 

Caution, after 6, 8 

Charity, 216, 7 

Cruelty, 120 

Confidence, /false) 134 

Death, after 93, 4 

Detraction, 221 

Debasement, after 24, 5 

Detection, after 1,44 

Difficulty, 203 
j Fear, after 51, 9-9 



3XZV1 



ERRATA. 



APH. 

Friendship (false) 57, 9 
Guilt, 42, 93 
Habit, 74, 5 
Honor, 85 
Honours, 267 
Ingratitude, 123, 4 
Justice, (divine J 42, 3 
Justice, (kuman J 266 
JLove, 21, 2 
Merit, 206 35* 
Mind, 131 V 



APH. 

Placability, 264 
Prudence, 181 
Relief, 140 
Repentance, 65 9 9. 77 
Sensibility , 45 
T.me, 131 
Use, 141 
Wishes, 37 
Woman, 229, 30 
Words, 251 
Youth, 9, 10 



ADD THE FOLLOWING TITLES TO INDEX. 

Fullness, 157 — Government, 122 — Storms, 127. 

ADD TO THE NOTES. — TO APHORISM 11. 

Ben si puo dire a me — ' Frate, tu vai 
* Mostrando altrui la via; dove sovente, 
c Fosti smarrito, & hor se- piu che mai.' 

SONN. 79.— PETRARCA, 



TO APHORISM 99. 

Timeri quam diligi malunt. 



CICLRG. 



I shall always be an advocate for committing to memory 
from early youth, and retaining through life, the divine 
thoughts and expressions of the great Authors of Antiquity. 
And beside the advantage of forming that Elocution which 
maybe ornamental, honourable, even necessary, in future 
life, it is certain that passages which are publicly to be re- 
cited are thus better learnt, the force, peculiarities, refine- 
ment, and genius of a Language more deeply felt, and the 
invaluable treasures of such Languages and Authors as the 
Greek and Roman, and our own, longer, and with more 
effect, retained. I have pleasure in adding this Note, after 
hearing the Speeches at the Grammar-school, Bury; and 
with the indelible remembrance of those of Eton. C. L. 

I2tk July, \%\ c 2.—Troston Hall. 

FINIS. 

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